Quantum walks sound abstract, but they sit at the center of a very concrete race: who will harness quantum mechanics to solve problems that overwhelm today’s most powerful supercomputers. Instead of ...

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.

When Edsger W. Dijkstra published his algorithm in 1959, computer networks were barely a thing. The algorithm in question found the shortest path between any two nodes on a graph, with a variant ...

ABSTRACT: The golden age of digital chips seems to be coming to an end. For decades, we have relied on making transistors smaller and increasing clock speeds to improve performance. However, when chip ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. If you want to solve a tricky problem, it often helps to get organized. You might, for example, break the problem into pieces and tackle ...

Plastic waste has woven itself into the fabric of our oceans, threatening marine life, disrupting ecosystems, and impacting global economies. For decades, attempts to solve this crisis struggled with ...

Creative Commons (CC): This is a Creative Commons license. Attribution (BY): Credit must be given to the creator. The appeal of multicomponent reactions, MCRs, is that they can offer highly convergent ...

Finding the shortest path in a network is a classical problem, and a variety of search strategies have been proposed to solve it. In this paper, we review traditional approaches for finding shortest ...

SUNNYVALE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Juniper Networks (NYSE: JNPR), a leader in secure, AI-Native Networking, today announced a new round of innovations for its routing portfolio that expedite ...

Abstract: Traditional routing protocols, such as RIP and OSPF, encounter a series of issues—including slow convergence and high average latency—when faced with the exponential growth of network ...