Guru Madhavan is the Norman R. Augustine Senior Scholar and senior director of programs at the National Academy of Engineering. His new book is Wicked Problems: How to Engineer a Better World (W.W.

Modeling how cars deform in a crash, how spacecraft respond to extreme environments, or how bridges resist stress could be made thousands of times faster thanks to new artificial intelligence that ...

Your code will carry the signs of the decisions you have not made. Three recurring patterns emerge across organizations: the shared "kitchen sink" utilities library, the domain "identity crisis", and ...