CAMBRIDGE, U.K. – A small Microsoft Research team had lofty goals when it set out four years ago to create an analog optical computer that would use light as a medium for solving complex problems.

This is the official implementation of our ICLR 2025 paper "UniCO: On Unified Combinatorial Optimization via Problem Reduction to Matrix-Encoded General TSP". Fig 1. The 3-step workflow of the UniCO ...

Palo Alto, California-based D-Wave Quantum Inc. claims to be the first company that sells computers that leverage quantum effects in their operation. The company recently demonstrated how its quantum ...

Heidi S. Enger ’27, an Associate Editorial Editor, is a Social Studies Concentrator in Eliot House. She’s enrolled in Ec10b this semester (don’t ask). Harvard students have to stop treating life like ...

3 Body Problem is easily one of Netflix’s most ambitious series, brought to life by the duo behind HBO’s Game of Thrones. The show (mostly) delivered on expectations, leading to a two-season renewal ...

Abstract: Rectangle packing problem exists widely in manufacturing processes of modern industry, such as cutting of wood, leather, metal and paper, etc. It is also known as a typical NP-Complete ...

Abstract: Put forward a method for rectangle layout problems by rectangle's feasible region in layout polygon, sort all the rectangles as their areas and take the locationing function as the basis to ...