The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. In 1939, upon arriving late to his statistics course at UC Berkeley, George Dantzig—a first-year graduate student—copied two problems ...

The world according to Jim: • It’s time. It’s past time, in fact. Time not only to change the process of deciding a college football champion, but time to change the entire face of the sport, after a ...

The latest study published in Engineering has unveiled a groundbreaking approach to advancing green ethylene manufacturing, with profound implications for global sustainable chemical production.

Oct 7 (Reuters) - Goldman Sachs raised on Monday its December 2026 gold price forecast to $4,900 per ounce from $4,300, citing strong Western exchange-traded fund (ETF) inflows and likely central bank ...

Introduction: In unsupervised learning, data clustering is essential. However, many current algorithms have issues like early convergence, inadequate local search capabilities, and trouble processing ...

The company revised its 2025 guidance, now expecting total revenue of $487 million to $495 million, comparable restaurant sales growth of 2.5% to 4%, restaurant contribution margin between 11.8% and ...

Our 2010 estimates of the size of religious groups differ from the 2010 estimates we published in previous reports, including “The Global Religious Landscape” (2012), “The Future of World Religions: ...

CEO Bob Leasure highlighted significant progress in several areas during Q2 2025. Total revenue increased to $124.3 million, representing a year-over-year growth of $5.3 million. He noted substantial ...

Minister of Finance and Economic Affairs Simplex Chithyola-Banda yesterday presented in Parliament the 2024-25 Mid-Year Budget Review Statement highlighting efforts to salvage the fiscal plan in the ...

Abstract: Optimization problems lie at the core of scientific and engineering endeavors. Solutions to these problems are often compute-intensive. To fulfill their compute-resource requirements, ...