You've probably gotten a spam email or two. So how do we detect if an email is spam? And what does that have to do with classifiers, machine learning, overfitting, CAPTCHAs, the Turing test, and artificial intelligence?

A chat with Alden Wright, Professor Emeritus of Computer Science at the University of Montana about his career in science.

You're in a room with 99 other people-- what are the chances someone shares your birthday? And what are the chances that any pair of people share a birthday? And what does this have to do with cryptographic hashes and forging digital documents?

How can you figure out the identity of a baker by looking only at the cookies that they bake? And how can this be used to predict the weather or to do speech recognition?

A chat with Jesse Johnson, Professor of Computer Science at the University of Montana about his career in science.

Should a barber shave himself? And what does that mean for making a program that defies anyone?

How many ways are there to count the votes in a tied election so that one candidate is never behind? And what does this have to do with combinatorics and walking home on a grid of city blocks?

How do we make computers faster every year? And what does it have to do with ways to do your laundry, with the rise of GPUs, and with the battle between 4 pigs and 4096 chickens?

A chat with Oliver Serang, Assistant Professor of Computer Science at the University of Montana about his career in science.

A diner has too many people dining alone, and so they can't seat a family of four. What does that have to do with why it's slow to copy a movie to your USB stick?