A computer scientist has achieved a breakthrough in a nearly 25-year-old problem involving how computers calculate distances across enormous networks. The new algorithm delivers more reliable ...

Computer scientists have written a network flow algorithm that computes almost as fast as is mathematically possible. This algorithm computes the maximum traffic flow with minimum transport costs for ...

A longstanding hypothesis held that some problems would always be hard for computers to solve quickly. But OpenAI disproved ...

BOSTON, Nov. 19th, 2024 — QuEra Computing, a leader in neutral-atom quantum computing, today announced the launch of a comprehensive full-stack quantum algorithm co-design program. This new initiative ...

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 ...

OpenAI claims to disprove the Exponential Time Hypothesis with a new algorithm showing subexponential performance for the ...