After losing an hour of shut-eye thanks to daylight saving time, sleep is on many people’s minds today. The day after we “spring forward,” people are significantly more tired—and cranky—due to that ...

Richard C. Larson, Mitsui Professor, explores the role of operations research in everyday life and the concept of model thinking Welcome to the first of four short discussions on operational research ...

Abstract: High penetration of renewable energy generation (REG) presents severe uncertainties for power system operation. It is critical to quantify the accommodation level of REG in the nonlinear ...

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China's DeepSeek has just published a new AI training method to scale models more easily. Analysts told Business Insider the approach is a "striking breakthrough." The paper comes as DeepSeek is ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. In 1939, upon arriving late to his statistics course at UC Berkeley, George Dantzig—a first-year graduate student—copied two problems ...

WASHINGTON ‒ The Trump administration is moving to dismantle the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Colorado, according to a senior White House official, taking aim at one of the world's ...

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Researchers have demonstrated a new optical computing method that performs complex tensor operations in a single pass of light. The advance could reshape how modern AI systems process data and ease ...

Operations research (OR) and machine learning (ML) techniques, when used in isolation, are often inadequate for addressing complex optimization problems. While OR struggles with combinatorial ...