This New Algorithm for Sorting Books or Files Is Close to Perfection The library sorting problem is used across computer science for organizing far more than just books.

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 ...

Army major and presidential aide was in the room for key moments of Gerald Ford's presidency, including first lady Betty Ford's intervention.

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.

Bellman-Ford algorithm So what do we do when we have negative weights? As long as there are no negative cycles in our weighted directed graph we can use the Bellman-Ford algorithm. Like Dijkstra’s ...

In his new book Devil in the Stack, Andrew Smith confronts the fact that “computer code is seeping unchallenged and at an accelerating rate into every area of our existence.” As a technology ...

Three new books warn against turning into the person the algorithm thinks you are.

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 ...

As a journalist, Kyle Chayka has closely followed online trends. His new book considers the time he spent detaching digitally for what he calls an “algorithm cleanse.” Zak Tebbal; Photo, via ...