Abstract: In response to escalating market demands, we extend the distributed assembly flowshop problems (DAFSPs) by incorporating batch delivery, optimizing both total energy consumption (TEC) and ...

A new study suggests that everyday multilingual habits—from chatting with neighbors to revisiting a childhood language—may help preserve memory, attention, and brain flexibility as we age. An ...

Speaking multiple languages could slow down brain ageing and help to prevent cognitive decline, a study of more than 80,000 people has found. The work, published in Nature Aging on 10 November, ...

Google is rolling out a new AI-powered experimental feature in Google Translate designed to help people practice and learn a new language, the company announced on Tuesday. Translate is also gaining ...

Speaking — even trying to speak — a language will help open doors on your next trip, and achieving a “survival level” might be easier than you think. By Ruffin Prevost There are plenty of reasons to ...

Summary: Despite AI’s massive processing power, children still far outperform machines in learning language, and a new framework helps explain why. Unlike AI systems that passively absorb text, ...

I have long remembered a conversation I had 20 years ago with one of my professors, an expert in what we then called artificial intelligence, which, in many ways, is wildly different to what we now ...

My wife and I like to travel to other countries, but we always face a familiar obstacle -- how to learn the language well enough to converse with people. We've tried taking language lessons, yet we ...