Long before we possessed computers, human beings strove to find patterns in data. Ptolemy fitted observations of the motions of the stars to a geocentric model of the cosmos, with complex epicycles to ...

The most widely used technique for finding the largest or smallest values of a math function turns out to be a fundamentally difficult computational problem. Many aspects of modern applied research ...

a) Conceptual diagram of the on-chip optical processor used for optical switching and channel decoder in an MDM optical communications system. (b) Integrated reconfigurable optical processor schematic ...