Tim Morehouse, a silver medalist in team fencing at the 2009 Summer Olympics in Beijing, didn’t always feel a drive to excel. As a kid, he lacked focus and ambition. But fencing, he now says, gave him ...

Cool is everywhere, claims photographer Michel Arnaud. The statement is the title of his newest book (Abrams, $35), a survey of 14 second- and third-tier American cities experiencing a creative surge, ...

Why engineers look to incorporate adaptive and self-tuning approaches into system design. What is reinforcement learning and how does it work? Some approaches for successfully integrating RL into ...