Algorithms are central to modern mathematics and computer science. They are explicit procedures valued for their clarity, ...

Algorithms have taken on an almost mythical significance in the modern world. They determine what you see on social media and when browsing online, help form people’s belief systems, and impact the ...

In life, we sometimes have to make decisions without all the information we want; that’s true in computer science, too. This is the realm of online algorithms — which, despite their name, don’t ...

Image segmentation is one of those deceptively simple tasks that quietly underpins much of modern computer vision. Before a self-driving car can recognize a pedestrian, before a radiologist’s AI a ...

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 ...