JHU mathematician Emily Riehl explains how a surprising amount of math goes into determining who ends up in the U.S. House of ...

On a humid Tuesday morning in Lagos, a fish seller named Ami‑ na opened her smartphone. She could not read English fluently ...

There’s a myth that airlines use cookies to monitor flight searches and increase prices when they think you’re interested.

For centuries, humans looked to seers and astrologers to determine fate. Today, we look to algorithms, and the loss of agency is the same.

Welcome to the artifact repository of OSDI'25 accepted paper: Achieving Low-Latency Graph-Based Vector Search via Aligning Best-First Search Algorithm with SSD! This repository contains the ...

The Philadelphia Phillies have landed some great players in the first round of the MLB draft. Here are the five best. The MLB common draft era started in 1965, when the traditional summer draft ...

Imagine a town with two widget merchants. Customers prefer cheaper widgets, so the merchants must compete to set the lowest price. Unhappy with their meager profits, they meet one night in a ...

A search problem refers to the task of finding a solution within some space of possible options, and that space could be made up of discrete steps or continuously varying values. For example, solving ...

Google announced a new multi-vector retrieval algorithm called MUVERA that speeds up retrieval and ranking, and improves accuracy. The algorithm can be used for search, recommender systems (like ...