Inspired by the Japanese art of kirigami, an MIT team has designed a technique that could transform flat panels into medical devices, habitats, and other objects without the use of tools.

Overview: Strong knowledge of data structures and recognizing common patterns makes complex coding questions easier and faster to solve.Thinking out loud during ...

IN 2021, a unit of healthcare giant Johnson & Johnson announced “a leap forward”: It had added artificial intelligence (AI) to a medical device used to treat chronic sinusitis, an inflammation of the ...

Systems Approach Last year a couple of people forwarded to me the same article on a new method of finding shortest paths in networks.… The underlying research claims to improve on the classic approach ...

Shortest path algorithms sit at the heart of modern graph theory and many of the systems that move people, data, and goods around the world. After nearly seventy years of relying on the same classic ...

The All-Pairs Shortest Paths Problem, Seeking the Shortest Distance Between Every Node Pair in a Graph, is Efficiently Solved by Johnson's Algorithm for All Pairs of a Vertext, Bellman-Ford for ...

Last year was considered the ”Summer of Hell" for NJ Transit rail commuters after a mix of Amtrak infrastructure problems and NJ Transit train break downs caused delays and service suspensions. The ...

There is a new sorting algorithm a deterministic O(m log2/3 n)-time algorithm for single-source shortest paths (SSSP) on directed graphs with real non-negative edge weights in the comparison-addition ...

PATH riders using Hoboken Terminal will be offered free or discounted rides on NJ Transit and NY Waterway ferries starting Tuesday due to repairs of Hoboken switch problems blamed for a July 12 ...

AlphaEvolve uses large language models to find new algorithms that outperform the best human-made solutions for data center management, chip design, and more. Google DeepMind has once again used large ...

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 ...