Timber is becoming increasingly popular as the most sustainable construction material. But structural timber design is not easy. Currently, floor framing designers produce many possible designs before ...

Romera-Paredes and colleagues’ work is the latest step in a long line of research that attempts to create programs automatically by taking inspiration from biological evolution, a field called genetic ...

Collaborative research defines a novel approach to understanding how certain proteins called transcription factors determine which genetic programs will drive cell growth and maturation. The method, ...

We’re living in the age of Big Data. As the driving force behind everything from search algorithms to surgical robots and machine learning, massive sets of data can be found at the heart of some of ...

An introduction to both automatic differentiation and object-oriented programming can enrich a numerical analysis course that typically incorporates numerical differentiation and basic MATLAB ...

Using genetic programming techniques to find technical trading rules, we find strong evidence of economically significant out-of-sample excess returns to those rules for each of six exchange rates ...

Expertise from Forbes Councils members, operated under license. Opinions expressed are those of the author. Imagine computers taking over the world. This scenario has been the grounds for many movies ...

Collaborative research led by investigators at Dana-Farber/Boston Children's Cancer and Blood Disorders Center defines a novel approach to understanding how certain proteins called transcription ...