Everything costs more this year, and phones are no exception. But the real shocker isn’t that prices are higher—it’s that the ...

SummaryRFIC design is a complex “dark art” that limits progress in wireless technologies like 5G, autonomous vehicles, and ...

Abstract: Existing algorithms for estimating the model parameters of an explicit-duration hidden Markov model (HMM) usually require computations as large as O((MD/sup 2/ + M/sup 2/)T) or O(M/sup 2/ DT ...

The Precedence Diagram Method (PDM) is widely used for modeling large and complex construction projects characterized by non-linear execution logic, overlapping activities, and multiple precedence ...

Your browser does not support the audio element. Well, back in 1987, two programmers at General Electric did — and they ended up inventing the Marching Cubes ...

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 ...

Evolution is often depicted as a steady march toward increasingly better beings, but this common narrative overlooks the litany of evolutionary quirks throughout the plant and animal kingdoms. A new ...

The following essay is reprinted with permission from The Conversation, an online publication covering the latest research. Imagine a photograph of your great-grandparents, grandparents and parents ...

Imagine a photograph of your great-grandparents, grandparents and parents side by side. You’d see a resemblance, but each generation would look distinct from its predecessors. This is the process of ...