Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. author of Chained to the Desk in a Hybrid World: A Guide to Balance. There’s a lot of hidden action taking place under the radar ...

The leading approach to the simplex method, a widely used technique for balancing complex logistical constraints, can’t get any better. In 1939, upon arriving late to his statistics course at the ...

The Supreme Court has a chance to put some teeth on its ruling that workers can’t be compelled to pay dues. If the U.S. Supreme Court was waiting for a signature case to illustrate why its landmark ...

It’s funny in hindsight. Consider the teaching clinics the original Timbers put on in Portland back in that first summer of 1975. “You’d throw the ball to the kids,” said Peter Withe, “and they’d ...

Dr. James McCaffrey from Microsoft Research presents a complete end-to-end demonstration of the linear support vector regression (linear SVR) technique, where the goal is to predict a single numeric ...

Multiple myeloma is considered incurable, but a third of patients in a Johnson & Johnson clinical trial have lived without detectable cancer for years after facing certain death. By Gina Kolata A ...

Standard computer implementations of Dantzig's simplex method for linear programming are based upon forming the inverse of the basic matrix and updating the inverse ...

Some people think tens of millions of dead people are collecting Social Security checks. That's not true. What's really going on is people don't understand its old, underlying technology. The saga of ...