Materials scientists can learn a lot about a sample material by shooting lasers at it. With nonlinear optical microscopy—a ...

Mathematics of Operations Research, Vol. 12, No. 4 (Nov., 1987), pp. 678-699 (22 pages) We consider generalizations of the steepest descent algorithm for solving asymmetric systems of equations. We ...

A standard digital camera used in a car for stuff like emergency braking has a perceptual latency of a hair above 20 milliseconds. That’s just the time needed for a camera to transform the photons ...

It’s popular to think that the best, most successful innovators are experts at innovating. The assumption drives much of what’s taught in schools, and marketed by brands to the media. Innovation is a ...