Lance Fortnow on the current status and future outlook of solving the P-NP problem.

Abstract: Path planning is fundamental for controlling orthopedic robots and vital in ensuring surgical safety. To address the problem of low path-planning efficiency in traditional path planning ...

Mr. Ngarmboonanant is a managing director at J.P. Morgan and was a deputy chief of staff to Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen. Many Americans have heard that they should worry about the staggering size ...

Artificial intelligence (AI) is the new arms race and the centerpiece of defense modernization efforts across multiple countries, including the United States. Yet, despite the surge in AI investments, ...

It’s hard to pick any one line as my favorite in the 1998 cult classic “The Big Lebowksi,” because there are far too many to choose from, but I think I most enjoy the moment when John Goodman’s ...

The U.S. has become worryingly reliant on a small segment of its workforce, according to hedge fund billionaire Ray Dalio, particularly tech elites who, he argues, are propping up an "unproductive" ...

Imagine a town with two widget merchants. Customers prefer cheaper widgets, so the merchants must compete to set the lowest price. Unhappy with their meager profits, they meet one night in a ...

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 ...

Children as young as 4 years old are capable of finding efficient solutions to complex problems, such as independently inventing sorting algorithms developed by computer scientists. The scientists ...

The key to making a successful product is to identify a problem and then offer to solve it. But what happens when no problems remain? Then you have to create one. Or three. At its “Awe Dropping” event ...

Traditional path planning algorithms often face problems such as local optimum traps and low monitoring efficiency in agricultural UAV operations, making it difficult to meet the operational ...