In today’s increasingly contentious political climate, it can feel as if the act of logging on to our preferred social media platforms is cause for major anxiety. In a hyper-connected world, political ...

Editor’s note: Guest Columns and Letter to The Editors are published as submitted. Submission instructions are available at usustatesman.com. The last few years have seen an unprecedented increase in ...

Abstract: Existing algorithms for the flight string scheduling problem often fall short due to their NP-hard nature and difficulties with local optima. To enhance efficiency, we propose a two-stage ...

Implementation of the quantum column generation algorithm from arXiv:2301.02637v2 for minimum vertex graph coloring, using QCi's Dirac-3 photonic quantum annealer as the pricing oracle.

During the holiday season, and by virtue of still being the spoiled youngest child, my mom pleaded for my Christmas list as if I was 8 years old again. Without any sort of hesitation, I started ...

In an era dominated by screens and rapid change, Generation Z, those roughly aged 13 to 28 and often dubbed “Zoomers,” are emerging as our 21st-century equivalent of the “Lost Generation.” This cohort ...

I’m always on the lookout for strategies that will help me make my life with ALS go a little bit smoother, and I’ve recently found a new one. It’s easy to do and, most importantly, it adds a layer of ...

Social media algorithms are complex sets of rules and calculations used by social media platforms to prioritize content in users’ feeds. They are like the invisible puppeteers behind the scenes, ...