(THE CONVERSATION) Among high school students and adults, girls and women are much more likely to use traditional, step-by-step algorithms to solve basic math problems – such as lining up numbers to ...

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 ...

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Right now, quantum computers are small and error-prone compared to where they’ll likely be in a few years. Even within those limitations, however, there have been regular claims that the hardware can ...

Integer Linear Programming (ILP) is the foundation of combinatorial optimization, which is extensively applied across numerous industries to resolve challenging decision-making issues. Under a set of ...

I’m not a coffee drinker, so I rarely visit a Starbucks. But I can tell you that this is a classic case of how relying too much on technology becomes a problem. Technology is often cheaper than ...

1 Secure System Platform Research Laboratories, NEC Corporation, Kawasaki, Japan 2 NEC-AIST Quantum Technology Cooperative Research Laboratory, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and ...