We might be witnessing the start of a new computing era where AI, cloud and quantum begin to converge in ways that redefine ...
Artificial intelligence has captured headlines recently for its rapidly growing energy demands, and particularly the surging ...
We had our first taste of the problem with mean-variance optimization at a hedge fund some years back. We loaded the positions into an optimizer, pressed the button, and discovered 25% of the ...
Dr. James McCaffrey of Microsoft Research shows how to implement simulated annealing for the Traveling Salesman Problem (find the best ordering of a set of discrete items). The goal of a combinatorial ...