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

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Melexis introduces a new algorithm for people detection, counting, and localisation, tailored for its MLX90642 far-infrared (FIR) 32×24 thermal array. This solution is a more privacy-preserving ...

A shredding and sorting system provided by Wendt Corp. will help global metals producer Novelis make recycled-content aluminum in Kentucky. Wendt Corp. says the newly installed flexible shredding and ...

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.

GPU-based sorting algorithms have emerged as a crucial area of research due to their ability to harness the immense parallel processing power inherent in modern graphics processing units. By ...

A Hyderabad-based software engineer at Google has listed seven key topics for the screening round at the tech giant. In a now-viral post on X, Anu Sharma shared the common topics that candidates ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. Computer scientists often deal with abstract problems that are hard to comprehend, but an exciting new algorithm matters to anyone who ...

The library sorting problem is used across computer science for organizing far more than just books. A new solution is less than a page-width away from the theoretical ideal. Computer scientists often ...