Managing a power grid is like trying to solve an enormous puzzle. Grid operators must ensure the proper amount of power is ...

Neel Somani points out that while artificial intelligence may look like it runs on data and algorithms, its real engine is ...

BOZEMAN, Mont.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--FICO (NYSE: FICO): Global analytics software leader FICO today announced that the 2024 FICO® Xpress Best Paper Award went to a team that developed an algorithm for ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. For computer scientists, solving problems is a bit like mountaineering. First they must choose a problem to solve—akin to identifying a ...

CAMBRIDGE, U.K. – A small Microsoft Research team had lofty goals when it set out four years ago to create an analog optical computer that would use light as a medium for solving complex problems.

The leading approach to the simplex method, a widely used technique for balancing complex logistical constraints, can’t get any better. In 1939, upon arriving late to his statistics course at the ...

What if the next new mathematical discovery didn’t come from a human mind, but from an AI? Imagine a machine not just crunching numbers but proposing original solutions to problems that have baffled ...