Laurie Spiegel on the difference between algorithmic music and ‘AI’

The legendary composer is celebrating 40 years of Music Mouse, which brought algorithmic composition to home computers.
Scientific American

The mathematical mystery inside the legendary ’90s shooter Quake 3

Deep within the source code of this online multiplayer game lies an enigmatic number that puzzles and inspires experts to this day ...
Government TechnologyOpinion

FETC26: Beyond the Screen Time Debate, in Defense of Ed Tech

At the annual Future of Education Technology Conference last month in Orlando, FETC Chair Jennifer Womble explained why the K ...
IEEE

A Coherence-Oriented Fast Time-Domain Algorithm for UAV Swarm SAR Imaging With Trajectory Difference Correction and Data-Driven MOCO

Abstract: By equipping the synthetic aperture radar (SAR) sensors on multiple unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) to form a UAV swarm (UAVS) and operate collaboratively, UAVS-SAR presents the significant ...
IEEE

Improved Rates for Stochastic Variance-Reduced Difference-of-Convex Algorithms

Abstract: In this work, we propose and analyze DCAPAGE, a novel algorithm that integrates the difference-of-convex algorithm (DCA) with the ProbAbilistic Gradient Estimator (PAGE) to solve structured ...