California is testing a 'smart highway' where algorithms determine the speed limit and when cars can enter the freewaySource ...

Giant trees deep in the mountains of Taiwan proper are a vastly undervalued carbon sink, and could face extinction in the ...

AWS disclosed that Resilient Network Graphs, a flat network architecture based on quasi-random graph theory, is now the ...

There isn’t a clear demarcation point in which modern cinema emerged, but 2011 did feel like the end of an era in several ways. Although it was a jam-packed year filled with comic book films, ...

Abstract: We study augmenting a connected graph with a limited number of edges to maximize its spanning-tree connectivity, quantified by the log-determinant of the reduced Laplacian. The problem is NP ...

A decision tree regression system incorporates a set of if-then rules to predict a single numeric value. Decision tree regression is rarely used by itself because it overfits the training data, and so ...

Abstract: Tethered robots find widespread application in underwater and disaster recovery missions. This study focuses on the coverage path planning (CPP) problem for a tethered robot, considering ...

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 ...

Last year, fashion publications wrote extensively about the impact of the algorithm on personal style. (Vogue Business included.) In last year’s fashion conversation, ‘the algorithm’ surpassed its ...

You are the benevolent ruler of The Republic of Graphistan, and you want to modernize the roads between cities—widening them, repaving them, turning them into superhighways. But it’s complicated. When ...

Many algorithms for point clouds require consistent orientation of normals in all points to understand where the object has inside and outside. It is not an easy task to achieve. The most famous ...

Scientists have trained an AI algorithm to count the number of flowers on fruit trees using only smartphone images. The system could predict the size of a harvest months in advance — saving farmers ...