A computer in a simulation will not have the same processing power as the computer that's running the simulation, Cain explains, so there will be inconsistencies or tell-tale signs, perhaps ...

Abstract R is an open-source programming language and environment with powerful and extensive features for data analysis, data visualization, and statistical computing. Although R first appeared in ...

Like pilots, some business executives are using computer simulations so their companies and organizations will be as prepared as possible to respond to a variety of crisis situations.

Students can learn some science concepts just as well from computers simulations as they do from direct observation, new research suggests. A study found that people who used computer simulations ...

"For example, with semiconductor manufacturing plants costing more than a billion dollars, experiments with new computer chip technology are very expensive," he says. "Much of the design and ...

Are we living in a computer simulation? I don’t know. Probably. Why this computer scientist thinks reality might be a video game.

In this week's It’s Debatable article, Rick Rosen and Charles Moster debate whether we're all living in a computer simulation like the Matrix. Rosen retired as a professor from the Texas Tech ...

For all we know we are, in fact, in a vast computer simulation. Here’s a version of the simulation argument that I am fond of.

Or whether we’re living in a computer simulation, something proposed by Swedish philosopher Nick Bostrom and others, and maybe your stoned friend Chad last week.

In order for a computer to simulate reality, then, the machine would need to have enough power to actually create the phenomena that we experience within its simulated environment.

The simulation hypothesis, which was famously probed in the 1999 film The Matrix, is the subject of a new book by Rizwan Virk, a computer scientist and video game developer who leads Play Labs at ...