When Edsger W. Dijkstra published his algorithm in 1959, computer networks were barely a thing. The algorithm in question found the shortest path between any two nodes on a graph, with a variant ...

Python simulation of the London Underground network that finds the fastest route between stations using weighted graph algorithms. Includes dynamic connections and optimization for travel time and ...

Rollercoaster Tycoon wasn’t the most fashionable computer game out there in 1999. But if you took a look beneath the pixels—the rickety rides, the crowds of hungry, thirsty, barfing people (and the ...

Julie Harris, a chemical engineer, knows that women in leadership roles in her field are rare — but she’s never let that stop her from forging her own path. When the opportunity arose to join her ...

If you want to solve a tricky problem, it often helps to get organized. You might, for example, break the problem into pieces and tackle the easiest pieces first. But this kind of sorting has a cost.

“The final [GPAI] Code of Practice [for the EU AI Act] says ‘[s]ignatories are encouraged to make publicly available and keep up-to-date a summary of their copyright policy,’ whereas previous drafts ...

Genomics is playing an important role in transforming healthcare. Genetic data, however, is being produced at a rate that far outpaces Moore’s Law. Many efforts have been made to accelerate genomics ...

Yann LeCun’s argues that there are limitations of chain-of-thought (CoT) prompting and large language model (LLM) reasoning. LeCun argues that these fundamental limitations will require an entirely ...