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 ...

Determining the least expensive path for a new subway line underneath a metropolis like New York City is a colossal planning challenge—involving thousands of potential routes through hundreds of city ...

Abstract: This study addresses the challenge of generating high-quality motion plans within a short computation time using only a limited dataset. In the informed experience-driven random trees ...

Catalysis plays an important role in many fields, from industrial chemistry to the molecular biology of the cell. The efficiency of a catalyst for accelerating a reaction strongly depends on its ...

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This project implements an AI-based solution to the classic 8-Puzzle Problem using various search algorithms, with a focus on the A* algorithm for optimal performance. The 8-puzzle is a 3x3 sliding ...

After receiving his degree in Journalism & Media Communications from CSU in 2019, Erik began building his career in online media, and found his dream job when he joined Game Rant as a staff writer.

Abstract: This manuscript addresses the problem of finding optimal control for dynamic systems using the gradient descent method. A numerical algorithm is constructed to find the optimal control in ...