In revisiting past hard problems, it is also important to recount successes that helped us bolster our defense. Successes ...

In September 2019, news broke regarding progress on this 82-year-old question, thanks to prolific mathematician Terence Tao. And while the story of Tao's breakthrough is promising, the problem isn't ...

Chapter 2 explored key factors underpinning difficult cyber challenges. This chapter goes on to list and discuss the list of cyber hard problems—well-defined problems where progress toward their ...

The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine are private, nonprofit institutions that provide expert advice on some of the most pressing challenges facing the nation and world. Our ...

I’m spotting a worrying trend among startup founders who seem to think that running a startup is effectively a get-rich-quick scheme. Apart from that mindset being wrong and naive, I suspect there’s ...

The new CEO of GM’s autonomous vehicle maker Cruise has no experience in the auto industry and knows far more about video gaming than selling cars. And he’s an excellent pick for the job. The ...

For all of the recent strides we’ve made in the math world—like a supercomputer finally solving the Sum of Three Cubes problem that puzzled mathematicians for 65 years—we’re forever crunching ...

We rely on cyber systems for most aspects of our daily lives—from commercial transactions to transportation networks. However, keeping these essential cyber systems safe, secure, and resilient is ...