Recent advances in data mining and mathematical modelling have increasingly influenced the development of sophisticated algorithms across diverse application domains. By extracting hidden structures ...

Almost weekly a friend or an acquaintance asks me, “I want to learn to code; which language should I start with?” More or less bi-weekly I get a DM on LinkedIn starting with, “My son should start ...

The graph colouring problem, a classic NP-hard challenge, is central to many practical applications such as scheduling, resource allocation and network management. Recent advances have seen the ...

Here’s a new axiom fit for the 21st century: The greater the global challenge, the more likely it is to fall to local governments to fix. But this modern reality comes with an inconvenient truth: Our ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. For computer scientists, solving problems is a bit like mountaineering. First they must choose a problem to solve—akin to identifying a ...

In today’s complex business environment, problem solving skills are not just valuable—they are an essential asset that top employers are willing to pay a premium for. As organizations face new ...

Researchers from the Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore (NUS Medicine) and the University of Oxford have successfully demonstrated how problem-solving techniques used in ...

Any task that tests your mental muscles is a step in the right direction when improving your problem-solving skills. While ...