In today’s code-driven era, C++ remains an unshakable cornerstone for many programmers due to its outstanding performance and ...

A major advance reveals deep connections between the classes of problems that computers can — and can’t — possibly do. At first glance, the big news coming out of this summer’s conference on the ...

A class of production planning problems is considered in which known demands have to be satisfied over a finite horizon at minimum total costs. For each period, production and storage cost functions ...

Hiverge, a start-up launched by former Google DeepMind research leaders, has secured $5 million in seed funding for its ‘algorithm factory,’ aiming to solve a hidden yet critical business challenge: ...

In 1971, German mathematicians Schönhage and Strassen predicted a faster algorithm for multiplying large numbers, but it ...

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 ...