Abstract: Job-shop scheduling is a fundamental optimization issue in manufacturing. It involves determining the optimal allocation of many jobs among machines to increase makespan, throughput, and ...

One day in November, a product strategist we’ll call Michelle (not her real name), logged into her LinkedIn account and switched her gender to male. She also changed her name to Michael, she told ...

In a world run by computers, there is one algorithm that stands above all the rest. It powers search engines, encrypts your data, guides rockets, runs simulations, and makes the modern digital ...

In “The Great Math War,” Jason Socrates Bardi takes on a battle for the soul of numbers that divided the experts of its day. By Jordan Ellenberg Jordan Ellenberg, a professor of mathematics at the ...

School of Information Engineering, Qujing Normal University, Qujing, China. Tourism development in emerging destinations requires balancing economic benefits with ecological sustainability. In this ...

Alphabet has long been exploring quantum AI technology. The company has engineered its own chip, called Willow, which just achieved a major breakthrough. Quantum computing could be the next big ...

All mainstream credit card numbers obey a mathematical trick designed to catch the most common typos. It’s called the Luhn algorithm, named after IBM researcher Hans Peter Luhn, who patented it in ...

You’re at the checkout screen after an online shopping spree, ready to enter your credit card number. You type it in and instantly see a red error message ...