Many engineering challenges come down to the same headache—too many knobs to turn and too few chances to test them. Whether tuning a power grid or designing a safer vehicle, each evaluation can be ...
The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. For computer scientists, solving problems is a bit like mountaineering. First they must choose a problem to solve—akin to identifying a ...
What if the next new mathematical discovery didn’t come from a human mind, but from an AI? Imagine a machine not just crunching numbers but proposing original solutions to problems that have baffled ...
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 ...