When trying to teach a complex subject, sometimes the best strategy is to wrap it in something familiar. Like a burrito. An ideal candidate for such an approach? Mathematical optimization, which uses ...

This week’s Business of Giving features Shannon Farley, co-founder and executive director of Fast Forward. The San Francisco nonprofit has a big mission: to help other nonprofits use technology to ...

(THE CONVERSATION) Among high school students and adults, girls and women are much more likely to use traditional, step-by-step algorithms to solve basic math problems – such as lining up numbers to ...

The Burrito Optimization Game was developed by Gurobi Optimization in partnership with Lehigh University Professor Larry Snyder. This interactive game challenges players to deliver burritos in a way ...