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Featured Articles and Invitations from the AMS
A Different Kind of Institute: The American Institute of Mathematics
Allyn Jackson
The author reports on the history, operations, and future plans of the unique California research institute.
Lifting the Curse of Dimensionality
Frances Y. Kuo and Ian H. Sloan
The curse of dimensionality is the computational burden encountered when discrete integration schemes are extended to higher dimensions by products of lower dimensional methods. The authors show how this problem can be finessed by choices of integration points.