Imagine Jo: Everyone in Jo's life recognizes her as an outstanding problem solver. She's the type of person who seems capable of almost anything. Jo excels at intuitive problem-solving. Over her life, ...

Getting good at LeetCode Java isn’t just about solving problems; it’s about having a good plan. You need to know where to start, what tools to use, and how to keep going when things get tough. This ...

Researchers at TU Wien have discovered an unexpected connection between two very different areas of artificial intelligence: Large Language Models (LLMs) can help solve logical problems—without ...

H ave you ever met a Zionist Foucauldian? Some 30 years ago, I half-jokingly asked my fellow graduate students in a social-theory course if they had ever encountered such a creature. No one had. The ...

After three tumultuous years, President Michael Schill would be “stepping down,” we learned in early September. Interim President Henry Bienen, previously NU president from 1995 to 2009, left ...

There are very few things that Americans agree on these days. After all, this is a massive country full of hundreds of millions of people in different stages of life, subscribing to many different ...

When I first started working with multi-agent collaboration (MAC) systems, they felt like something out of science fiction. It’s a group of autonomous digital entities that negotiate, share context, ...

In the weeks since the October 8 cease-fire between Israel and Hamas, establishing and maintaining security in Gaza has become a crucial test. Already in the days after the deal was announced, Hamas ...

In 1945, as the first atomic bomb exploded in the New Mexico desert, Enrico Fermi stood miles away, holding a few scraps of paper. As the shockwave rolled toward him, he dropped the papers and watched ...

Executive coaching is incredibly valuable to leaders, but it can be hard to access at the moment they need it the most. Take a client of mine, “Simon,” a capable and newly promoted executive in a ...

We meet a solutions architect who tells us that his defining characteristic is curiosity, and that for him success is in solving problems with technology, for people. In a recent episode of the First ...

At Barbara Morgan STEM Academy, an elementary school in Meridian, Idaho, students approach nearly every subject through a STEM lens. As fifth-grade teacher Jamie Schildknecht explains, “So many of the ...