The fields of communication complexity and information theory form an interrelated domain that investigates the fundamental limits and efficiencies of distributed computation and data transmission.

Part of “Complexity Theory,” a new column on the tangled questions of our technological age. Back in 2012, during a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on facial recognition and privacy, then-Senator ...

Part of “Complexity Theory,” a new column on the tangled questions of our technological age. I suggested in a prior piece on Facebook and privacy that Facebook’s idea of privacy demonstrated a ...

Complexity theory is a fundamental branch of theoretical computer science that categorises computational problems according to their inherent difficulty and the resources required to solve them. At ...

Complexity in Health Care: A Paradigm shift for Clinical Practice (Springer 2023) by Steven A. Frankel, Steven D. Thurber, and James A. Bourgeois offers a healthy departure from standard approaches to ...