Why do algorithms keep showing us content we claim not to want? The answer isn’t manipulation—it’s conflict between our ...

Talking at Cisco’s AI Summit in San Francisco on February 3, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang made that pithy observation to sum up the phenomenon of people using AI coding tools to simply describe in plain ...

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 ...

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 ...

Understanding why, how, where, and when animals move is fundamental to ecology and evolution (Nathan et al., 2008). Animal movement occurs across a range of spatial and temporal scales, from local ...

Communications of the ACM 21, 7 (July 1978), 558-565. Reprinted in several collections, including Distributed Computing: Concepts and Implementations, McEntire et al., ed. IEEE Press, 1984. | July ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. If you’ve been making the same commute for a long time, you’ve probably settled on what seems like the best route. But “best” is a ...

The concept of knowledge graphs arose from scientific advances in a variety of research fields, including the semantic web, databases, natural language processing, and machine learning. According to ...

Planning and problem solving are cornerstones of higher brain function. But we do not know how the brain does that. We show that learning of a suitable cognitive map of the problem space suffices.

Quadtree stands out as a pivotal data structure, especially in 2D game development. It excels at spatial partitioning, efficiently organizing and searching for objects in a hierarchical tree structure ...