To make cancer care smoother and more effective, the Alliance for Clinical Trials in Oncology has introduced a new clinical ...

So many productivity methods ask you to prioritize your daily tasks by considering how much time or effort they'll require, then tackling the resource-heavy ones first. For some people, that's a solid ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. 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 ...

Every time a new slang word gets coined on the Internet, linguist Adam Aleksic is thrilled. “It’s definitely good for me in that I stay in business,” says Aleksic, who studies the origins of words and ...

Ever wondered how social media platforms decide how to fill our feeds? They use algorithms, of course, but how do these algorithms work? A series of corporate leaks over the past few years provides a ...

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.

We derive and implement a second-order adjoint method to compute exact gradients and Hessians for a prototypical quantum optimal control problem, that of solving for the minimal energy applied ...

ABSTRACT: We consider shape and topological optimization problems for thermoelasticity. A model of thermoelasticity problem is first proposed before presenting the models for which a mathematical ...

Retailers like Target and Walmart use AI to prevent stockouts and manage inventory. AI systems can predict demand to help improve inventory accuracy and availability. This article is part of "How AI ...