In January, four MIT researchers showed off a replacement for one of the most important algorithms in computer science. Dina Katabi, Haitham Hassanieh, Piotr Indyk, and Eric Price have created a ...

AMES, Iowa – Something called the fast Fourier transform is running on your cell phone right now. The FFT, as it is known, is a signal-processing algorithm that you use more than you realize. It is, ...

During the Cold War, the United States feared that rival powers could secretly test nuclear weapons underground without being detected. Scientists began analyzing seismic signals from earthquakes and ...

(via Veritasium) The Fast Fourier Transform is used everywhere but it has a fascinating origin story that could have ended the nuclear arms race.

Over at Quanta Magazine [Shalma Wegsman] asks What Is the Fourier Transform? [Shalma] begins by telling you a little about Joseph Fourier, the French mathematician with an interest in heat propagation ...