The Traveling Salesman Problem (TSP) is a prototypical NP-hard combinatorial optimisation challenge: given a set of locations and pairwise distances satisfying the triangle inequality, find the ...

Studying the epic journey of the iconic jumping plumber can lead to new insights in theoretical computer science—and may help ...

Classical computing gave us automation. What's coming next is something closer to a factory that thinks. But getting there requires two technologies converging in a way that many might not fully ...

Nathan Lane says Broadway actors sometimes joke that their job is to keep 1,600 audience members from coughing. Except, as the star of Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman, it's not coughs that Lane ...

The great innovation of Shakespeare’s King Lear is that its patriarch has no sons. This problem — Lear has a vast estate, and only daughters to inherit it — marks the onset of a disaster. Because the ...

Mantello, a Tony-winning director whose credits include “Wicked” to “The Humans,” admits that bringing the Loman clan to life took a lot out of him. The show opened last month, and he’s been spending ...

Gothenburg promised to optimise school admissions with a piece of code. The resulting chaos showed how unaccountable systems are ruining lives We like to imagine that injustice announces itself loudly ...

Personalized algorithms may quietly sabotage how people learn, nudging them into narrow tunnels of information even when they start with zero prior knowledge. In the study, participants using ...

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Bio-inspired optimisation algorithms draw upon mechanisms observed in nature to address complex global optimisation tasks. These methods harness principles such as genetic evolution, swarm ...

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