Can emerging devices allow us to overcome the inherent determinism of digital logic?

The Message Passing Interface faces new challenges as modern concepts and technologies like data analytics and accelerators penetrate high-performance computing. Here, we discuss the future of MPI with HPC expert Prof. Torsten Hoefler of ETH Zürich, ...

An introduction to Markov models, their significance, and an explanation of how a hidden Markov model can be used to model the ultrasonic calls made by mice.

Computational methods can be used to find associations between our genome and our traits, and new optimizations to these computations promise to do it much faster.

Analyzing massive streaming graphs efficiently requires new algorithms, data structures, and computing platforms.

Scientific computing for social and modern information networks.

New algorithms for estimating parameters of distributions over big domains need significantly fewer samples.

Quantum computing is not merely a recipe for new computing devices, but a new way of looking at the world.

How the search for the limits of computing led to the discovery of the unexpected power of proofs.

Can people help computers solve challenging optimization problems?

Searching for information online has become an integral part of our everyday lives. However, sometimes we don't know the specific search terms to use, while other times, the specific information we're seeking hasn't been recorded online yet.

Courier problems comprise a set of recently proposed combinatorial optimization problems, which are inspired by some novel requirements in railway wagon scheduling. In these problems, scheduling strategies of some mobile couriers are considered. These ...