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 ...

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Standard computer implementations of Dantzig's simplex method for linear programming are based upon forming the inverse of the basic matrix and updating the inverse ...

The Undergraduate Senate (UGS) unanimously tabled a joint resolution with the Graduate Student Council (GSC) to designate Stanford as a sanctuary campus at Wednesday’s weekly meeting. This resolution ...

Many important practical computations, such as scheduling, combinatorial, and optimization problems, use techniques known as integer programming to find the best combination of many variables. In ...

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Editor in Chief Sarah Wheeler sat down with Matt VanFossen, CEO of Absolute Home Mortgage and Mortgage Automation Technologies, to talk about his unique view of the housing ecosystem and how it ...

Americans are withdrawing from watching broadcast and cable TV. Nielsen reports the number of viewers dropped below 50% for the total TV usage in July 2023. This marks the first time linear TV ...