Baez called for the development of new mathematics — he called it “green” math — to better capture the workings of Earth’s biosphere and climate. For his part, he sought to apply category theory, a ...

Democracy feels intuitive, fair, and rational, yet mathematics tells a far more troubling story. In the mid-20th century, a formal proof showed that no voting system can fairly translate individual ...

Explore how project management information systems guide each project phase, the tools that support them, and real-world use across industries. Project management information systems extend far beyond ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. All of modern mathematics is built on the foundation of set theory, the study of how to organize abstract collections of objects. But in ...

The SNEG library is a package for Mathematica computer algebra system. It provides a framework for performing calculations using the operators of the second quantisation with an emphasis on the ...

After a computer glitch shut down registers at a Texas H-E-B days before Christmas, shoppers were stunned when the store workers told them to take their groceries home for free A computer outage ...

Technical errors with the Home Office’s electronic visa (eVisa) system are causing “high levels of stress, fear and exhaustion” for migrants in the UK, who are being left to navigate the digitisation ...

For decades, the retail industry has faced the same persistent problems of empty shelves, pricing errors and inventory discrepancies. Despite having spent billions of dollars on data analytics and ...

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. In 1964 IBM Corporation announced a ...

After a 2020 breach thought to be Russia’s work, the courts told Congress that they would harden a system storing sealed documents. Five years later, the system was hacked again. By Mattathias ...