Engineers and coastal planners are increasingly focused on a deceptively simple idea: using ocean water more intelligently so it solves multiple problems instead of creating new ones. The phrase ...

Programmers in San Francisco and Berlin got together recently to attempt to build a system that would allow immigrants to tell their families they’ve arrived safely at their destination without anyone ...

This week’s Business of Giving features Shannon Farley, co-founder and executive director of Fast Forward. The San Francisco nonprofit has a big mission: to help other nonprofits use technology to ...

A line of engineering research seeks to develop computers that can tackle a class of challenges called combinatorial optimization problems. These are common in real-world applications such as ...

What if the next new mathematical discovery didn’t come from a human mind, but from an AI? Imagine a machine not just crunching numbers but proposing original solutions to problems that have baffled ...

There's a pervasive belief in technology and business: significant innovation demands trade-offs. Want better performance? Pay more. Want sustainability? Accept compromise. This zero-sum mindset has ...

The world is a pretty complicated place. Just think about all the moving parts it takes to get sliced bread delivered, regularly, to your local grocery store and then apply that to every facet of life ...