An obituary of Tony Hoare, a pioneer and one of the greatest programmers in the early history of computing.

Most of you have used a navigation app like Google Maps for your travels at some point. These apps rely on algorithms that ...

I used to approach decluttering my house like a full-contact sport. It was all about setting aside a weekend to tackle everything in the house at once, purge all the clutter, and then haul it all to ...

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Trying to distinguish between the emails directly sent to me and which ones I was just being Cc’d into in my Outlook Inbox used to take me a heap of time. I’d need to wade through each one and read ...

There is a new sorting algorithm a deterministic O(m log2/3 n)-time algorithm for single-source shortest paths (SSSP) on directed graphs with real non-negative edge weights in the comparison-addition ...

If you want to solve a tricky problem, it often helps to get organized. You might, for example, break the problem into pieces and tackle the easiest pieces first. But this kind of sorting has a cost.

In a bid to overcome shortcomings in scientific computing, Chinese scientists have unveiled a new approach to sorting data that promises both higher speed and lower energy consumption. The system ...