Daniel A. Spielman and colleague Shang-hua Teng solved the mystery of the Simplex Method using a technique called smoothed analysis…
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Last month, Adina Howe took up a post at Iowa State University in Ames. Officially, she is an assistant professor of agricultural and biosystems engineering.Nature From ACM Careers | February 4, 2015
Scientists at the European Space Agency (ESA) are debating whether to change part of the Rosetta mission in what would probably be the last attempt to find lost...Nature From ACM News | January 26, 2015
On clear, moonless evenings, most of the biggest optical telescopes around the world begin the night's observations by firing a golden laser beam at the sky.Nature From ACM News | January 21, 2015
More than a month after the Philae spacecraft bounced to the surface of Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko, European Space Agency scientists still have not been able...Nature From ACM News | December 18, 2014
Long sand dunes that ripple across Saturn's moon Titan may have been there for thousands of years, results from NASA's Cassini spacecraft suggest.Nature From ACM News | December 9, 2014
When asked what he likes best about working for Google, physicist John Martinis does not mention the famous massage chairs in the hallways, or the free snacks available...Nature From ACM News | December 3, 2014
For the first time since accidents severed the neural connection between their brains and limbs, a small number of patients are reaching out and feeling the world...Nature From ACM News | November 26, 2014
Once locked in an arms race with each other for the fastest supercomputers, US national laboratories are now banding together to buy their next-generation machines...Nature From ACM News | November 14, 2014
s though someone had pulled a plug in the oceans and drained them away, a sea-floor map has exposed thousands of never-before-seen underwater mountains and ridges...Nature From ACM News | October 14, 2014
Mike Lamont grabs the last croissant from a table and eats it as he walks through the control centre at CERN, the European laboratory for particle physics just...Nature From ACM News | October 8, 2014
Is a solution to one of the most important, beautiful and potentially lucrative problems in mathematics right around the corner?Nature From ACM News | August 5, 2014
After making it across 8.5 kilometres on Mars, NASA's Curiosity rover is now facing some of the most dangerous terrain it has ever encountered.Nature From ACM News | July 17, 2014
It took hundreds of thousands of workers decades to create China's terracotta army, but digital avatars made in minutes could solve the lingering mystery of one...Nature From ACM News | June 20, 2014
As it plunges into another two-week long 'lunar night', Jade Rabbit, China's Moon rover, is living on borrowed time.Nature From ACM News | June 20, 2014
By exploiting the tricks of quantum physics, researchers say they could build a worldwide network of atomic clocks that are much more accurate than any single clock...Nature From ACM News | June 16, 2014
Researchers are exploring what may be the first promising lead in months in the search for the wreckage of Malaysian Airlines flight MH370.Nature From ACM News | June 12, 2014