Online Set Cover and Load Balancing are central problems in online optimization, and there is a long line of work on developing algorithms for these problems with convex objectives. Although we know ...

A dentist in Kentucky who is accused of helping his son cover up the 2023 murder of a 38-year-old woman will not have his day in court until the spring of 2026, according to multiple stories published ...

Math teachers have to accommodate high school students' different approaches to problem-solving. RJ Sangosti/MediaNews Group/The Denver Post via Getty Images Among high school students and adults, ...

(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 ...

Winners & losers: As Black Friday deals flashed across screens in New York this year, some shoppers saw something new beneath the price tag: a short, blunt line of text. "This price was set by an ...

If you're a F1 fan and you hear the words "Las Vegas Grand Prix has some drain cover issues," you might wonder what year it is. That's because this very problem happened. Back in 2023, a loose drain ...

All of modern mathematics is built on the foundation of set theory, the study of how to organize abstract collections of objects. But in general, research mathematicians don’t need to think about it ...

Finnair says it does not yet know when all eight Airbus A321s affected by a seat-cleaning problem will return to service. The issue emerged earlier this week following an alert from the seat cover ...

Building owners and property managers will no longer be able to use algorithm-based software to artificially inflate New Yorkers’ rents as a result of a bill signed into law by Gov. Kathy Hochul on ...

Children as young as 4 years old are capable of finding efficient solutions to complex problems, such as independently inventing sorting algorithms developed by computer scientists. The scientists ...