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.

The algorithm addresses something called the library sorting problem (more formally, the “list labeling” problem). The challenge is to devise a strategy for organizing books in some kind of sorted ...

In Ford's 2½-year presidency, "it's mind-boggling the amount of stuff they needed to address." Nils, 58, remembers being "9 years old in the Oval Office one weekend after a soccer game, and not ...

Betty Ford was one of the world's most visible women. A new memoir recalls how, when she went public regarding her struggles with addiction, she changed her country forever.

Dijkstra’s algorithm is one of the most famous—and useful—algorithms in all computer science. Given a weighted directed graph, G G, and some starting node S S, Dijkstra’s algorithm will find the ...

In many ways, the algorithm is like the toddler she’s raising. “The algorithm and the child learn from the language they are fed,” Silva writes. They both are trained to predict patterns.

Algorithms may entrench our biases, homogenize and flatten culture, and exploit and suppress the vulnerable and marginalized. But these aren’t completely inscrutable systems or inevitable outcomes.

Filterworld — the addictive and stultifying algorithm-driven apocalypse that we are all, according to New Yorker writer Kyle Chayka, living through — began not with a big bang but with a chess ...

After reading Kyle Chayka’s new book, “Filterworld,” I understood more thoroughly and ruefully why I had chosen, or thought I’d chosen, to go there — and not, say, to the more ...