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 ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. Imagine a town with two widget merchants. Customers prefer cheaper widgets, so the merchants must compete to set the lowest price.

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 ...

Imagine a town with two widget merchants. Customers prefer cheaper widgets, so the merchants must compete to set the lowest price. Unhappy with their meager profits, they meet one night in a ...

I believe that every person has a superpower. Some lead with instinct, others with precision. Some ignite ideas, others build the systems that make those ideas real. The trick — in business, in ...

Picture this: you’ve decided to host a dinner party. The guest list is small but important. You spend the week cleaning the house, polishing the silver, and making sure every detail reflects care. You ...

Abstract: Graph cut algorithms are popular in optimization tasks related to min-cut and max-flow problems. However, modern FPGA graph cut algorithm accelerators still need performance and memory ...

Graph theory is an integral component of algorithm design that underlies sparse matrices, relational databases, and networks. Improving the performance of graph algorithms has direct implications to ...

This Java code implements Prim's Algorithm to find the Minimum Spanning Tree (MST) of a given weighted graph represented by a cost matrix. It reads the cost matrix and number of vertices from user ...