Quicksort is an algorithm invented by C.A.R. (“Tony”) Hoare in 1960 while at Moscow State University. Tony Hoare was a graduate student studying Probability Theory under Professor A.N. Kolmogorov.

An artificial intelligence (AI) system based on Google DeepMind’s AlphaZero AI created algorithms that, when translated into the standard programming language C++, can sort data up to three ...