University of Chicago Department of Computer Science

Hard to Discover, Harder to Use: The Widespread Failure of Ad Transparency Settings - Department of Computer Science Have you ever seen a strangely specific ad follow you around the internet and wondered why? You dive into your account settings, looking for a way to control what data is being used, only to find a confusing maze of menus, vague descriptions, and options that don’t seem to do what you want....

Ever get lost in ad settings? 🕵️‍♂️
New UChicago CS research by Kevin Bryson confirms US ad transparency tools are "hard to discover, harder to use."
Without regulation, the ad space is a "lawless land" where users have almost no control. 🛑

Constraints on Quantum-Advantage Experiments Due to Noise - Department of Computer Science The original version of this story was published in Physics Magazine We are currently in a fascinating era of quantum computing in which near-term experiments may be able to achieve “quantum advantage” and outperform classical computers at certain tasks. While a conclusive demonstration of quantum advantage will be a watershed moment in the...

Can noise actually make quantum computers easier to simulate?
In a Physics Magazine piece, UChicago CS Prof. Bill Fefferman analyzes research showing that without error correction, high noise kills quantum advantage.
To succeed, we must find the "Goldilocks zone" of qubits.