Whenever I explain that work, I end up explaining the same thing first: where path planning sits in an autonomous system, and ...

Researchers have developed a modified particle swarm optimization algorithm that outperforms eight competing heuristics in ...

AI is continuing to make breakthroughs in math and computing. AI evaluation firm Vals AI says it set ten instances of Claude Opus 5.5 loose on one of computer science’s oldest problems, and came away ...

A multiscale sampling strategy pushes a classic network-distance guarantee into territory previous algorithms struggled to reach. Credit: Shutterstock A new algorithm solves a blind spot that has ...

Most of you have used a navigation app like Google Maps for your travels at some point. These apps rely on algorithms that compute shortest paths through vast networks. Now imagine scaling that task ...

Shortest path algorithms sit at the heart of modern graph theory and many of the systems that move people, data, and goods around the world. After nearly seventy… Shortest path algorithms sit at the ...

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 ...

Chinese computer scientists have solved a 40-year-old mathematics bottleneck, an advance that might help boost performance in hi-tech areas ranging from chip design and telecommunications to drone ...

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 the easiest pieces first. But this kind of sorting has a cost.