What Students Need To Know About AI Degrees Before Picking A Major

From AI majors to traditional STEM degrees, here's what you should study if you want to work in artificial intelligence and ...
Northwestern's McCormick School of Engineering

Northwestern Computer Science at EC’26

Three Northwestern schools represented the University at the ACM Conference on Economics and Computation this month.
Analytics Insight

Most Common Algorithms Used in Software Development

Algorithms form the foundation of modern software development. From sorting and searching to hashing, graph processing, and dynamic programming, these techniques improve efficiency, optimize ...
Analytics Insight

What is an Algorithm in Programming? Beginner’s Coding Guide

An algorithm is a set of instructions that helps computers solve problems. It forms the foundation of programming and plays a major role in software development, artificial intelligence, and modern ...
marktechpost

Google DeepMind’s Research Lets an LLM Rewrite Its Own Game Theory Algorithms — And It Outperformed the Experts

Designing algorithms for Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning (MARL) in imperfect-information games — scenarios where players act sequentially and cannot see each other’s private information, like poker ...
ascopubs.org

Validation of Claims-Based Algorithms to Classify Thoracic Radiation Therapy Courses

Patients at our institution with lung cancer and any RT Current Procedural Terminology (CPT) code from October 2015 to January 2024 were analyzed. RT claims were organized by treatment episode, and RT ...
Wired

Game Theory Explains How Algorithms Can Drive Up Prices

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. Imagine a town with two widget merchants. Customers prefer cheaper widgets, so the merchants must compete to set the lowest price.
Quanta Magazine

A New Bridge Links the Strange Math of Infinity to Computer Science

Descriptive set theorists study the niche mathematics of infinity. Now, they’ve shown that their problems can be rewritten in the concrete language of algorithms. All of modern mathematics is built on ...
Quanta Magazine

The Game Theory of How Algorithms Can Drive Up Prices

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 ...
The Aspen Times

Beyond the Algorithm: The ‘Dinner Party Theory’

Picture this: you’ve decided to host a dinner party. The guest list is small but important. You spend the week cleaning the house, polishing the silver, and making sure every detail reflects care. You ...
IEEE

Observer-based Near-Optimal Consensus Control for Fully Heterogeneous Nonlinear Multiagent System via Adaptive Dynamic Programming

Abstract: In this paper, a novel observer-based near-optimal control algorithm is proposed to solve the output synchronization control problems for heterogeneous nonlinear multi-agent systems. Note ...