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 years of relying on the same classic ...

EDITOR'S NOTE: Following is the verbatim Thanksgiving address given by President Gerald Ford in November 1975, 50 years ago this month. Two hundred years ago the frontier colonies of America braced ...

When Edsger W. Dijkstra published his algorithm in 1959, computer networks were barely a thing. The algorithm in question found the shortest path between any two nodes on a graph, with a variant ...

BUCKTOWN — The matchup was familiar. It was the outcome that needed a change. Spring-Ford’s girls’ soccer team performed admirably against Owen J. Roberts this season, notching a pair of one-goal ...

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 ...

Every time a new slang word gets coined on the Internet, linguist Adam Aleksic is thrilled. “It’s definitely good for me in that I stay in business,” says Aleksic, who studies the origins of words and ...

Ever wondered how social media platforms decide how to fill our feeds? They use algorithms, of course, but how do these algorithms work? A series of corporate leaks over the past few years provides a ...

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.

Jake Peterson is Lifehacker’s Senior Technology Editor. He has a BFA in Film & TV from NYU, where he specialized in writing. Jake has been helping people with their technology professionally since ...

ABSTRACT: To provide quantitative analysis of strategic confrontation game such as cross-border trades like tariff disputes and competitive scenarios like auction bidding, we propose an alternating ...

Ford Motor is calling the majority of its salaried workforce back to the office four days a week, the automaker’s latest effort to boost employee and company performance. “Many of our employees have ...