Sir Tony Hoare, who has died aged 92, was a leading figure in computer software design best known for developing a leading ...

The Slug Algorithm has been around for a decade now, mostly quietly rendering fonts and later entire GUIs using Bézier curves ...

As the world races to build artificial superintelligence, one maverick bioengineer is testing how much unprogrammed intelligence may already be lurking in our simplest algorithms to determine whether ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. 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 ...

Children as young as 4 years old are capable of finding efficient solutions to complex problems, such as independently inventing sorting algorithms developed by computer scientists. The scientists ...

Another name for brute force is exhaustive search. In these algorithms you consider every possible solution in the solution domain to find the optimal solution. Depending on the type of problem that ...

One of my favorite recurring features in the mainstream media — maybe it’s a favorite of yours as well — is when some progressive liberal in The New York Times or The Atlantic or elsewhere writes a ...

Mr. Litt is the author of “It’s Only Drowning: A True Story of Learning to Surf and the Search for Common Ground.” Not too long ago, I felt a civic duty to be rude to my wife’s younger brother, Matt ...

Astronomers use brokers to identify which signals to pursue in an endless stream of alerts. Looking up at the stars at night, it may not be obvious that the universe is constantly changing. But it is: ...