Systems Approach Last year a couple of people forwarded to me the same article on a new method of finding shortest paths in networks. Dijkstra is a legend in computer science and his algorithm, which ...

Ford CEO Jim Farley says the company has about 5,000 open mechanic jobs, paying $120,000 per year, but still struggles to find enough qualified people to fill them. Farley thinks this reflects a ...

Ever hit a bump where a bridge meets a road? You’re not alone — it happens on a quarter of all U.S. bridges. The cause? Embankments made of compacted soil settle, while bridges don’t. One surprising ...

The issue of the blue slip hasn’t gone away. As I’ve argued before, getting rid of them is not a very good idea. It’s also fruitless red-on-red violence because even if Chairman Chuck Grassley ignored ...

Netflix would like you to know that Adolescence has been watched for more than 555 million hours this year, a number so large it feels almost impossible to quantify. (You don’t rack up a figure like ...

There was a power outage in San Francisco on Saturday, initially leaving 124,000 of 414,000 customers—about 30%—in the dark. It also caused a widespread Waymo meltdown, with apparently all active ...

Artificial intelligence (AI) is the new arms race and the centerpiece of defense modernization efforts across multiple countries, including the United States. Yet, despite the surge in AI investments, ...

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 ...

Abstract: This paper presents a detailed comparison of three popular path-finding algorithms: BFS, Dijkstra’s algorithm, and A*, for solving 2D mazes. Path-finding is a widely studied problem in ...

One day in November, a product strategist we’ll call Michelle (not her real name), logged into her LinkedIn account and switched her gender to male. She also changed her name to Michael, she told ...

HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) -- 13 Investigates is learning more about the Third Ward funeral home that was raided by the Houston Police Department on Friday, including that it provided mortuary services for ...