Algorithms are turning up in the most unlikely places, promising to assert mathematical probability into corners of our lives where intuition, instinct and hunches have long held sway.

Most significantly, it exhibits only a linear growth in the solution times based on the number of connections between nodes. In addition, the structure of the algorithm is such that it simultaneously ...

Right now, [Kory]’s computer that can program itself only does so by creating simple ‘hello world’ programs.

Successive Linear Programming (SLP) algorithms solve nonlinear optimization problems via a sequence of linear programs. They have been widely used, particularly in the oil and chemical industries, ...