The following sample plan of study fulfills the M.S. degree in Computational Operations Research, pending final approval from the State Council on Higher Education in Virginia, with an emphasis on ...

Few scientific ideas have leapt from philosophy seminars to dinner-table debates as quickly as the claim that our universe might be an artificial construct. The simulation hypothesis promises a ...

The idea that reality—the universe, our world, and everything we perceive—is a simulation has fascinated philosophers and scientists for millennia, but new findings suggest that the theory, despite ...