The International Mathematical Olympiad (IMO) is a prestigious competition featuring talented high school students from around the world, in which competitors solve complicated mathematical problems.

Researchers have found a new approach to finding shortest paths, but it's complex Systems Approach Last year a couple of ...

At least 1,357 medical devices using AI are now authorized by the FDA – double the number it had allowed through 2022 ...

Medical device makers have been rushing to add AI to their products. While proponents say the new technology will ...

Shortest path algorithms sit at the heart of modern graph theory and many of the systems that move people, data, and goods around the world. After nearly seventy years of relying on the same classic ...

The All-Pairs Shortest Paths Problem, Seeking the Shortest Distance Between Every Node Pair in a Graph, is Efficiently Solved by Johnson's Algorithm for All Pairs of a Vertext, Bellman-Ford for ...

Last year was considered the ”Summer of Hell" for NJ Transit rail commuters after a mix of Amtrak infrastructure problems and NJ Transit train break downs caused delays and service suspensions. The ...

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 ...

AlphaEvolve uses large language models to find new algorithms that outperform the best human-made solutions for data center management, chip design, and more. Google DeepMind has once again used large ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. For computer scientists, solving problems is a bit like mountaineering. First they must choose a problem to solve—akin to identifying a ...