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.

Other algorithms: what do they do? The purpose of an algorithm is to achieve a particular computing goal. Certain companies, for example, may have a data scientist, computer scientist, business ...

For example, Karray explained, there was a case in the U.S. in 2012 involving Target that sparked privacy concerns after the retailer used an algorithm to predict that a teenager was pregnant and sent ...

In Algorithms to Live By: The Computer Science of Human Decisions (Allen Lane Canada: $34.95), academics Brian Christian and Tom Griffiths explain that the human mind is more robotic than we think.