When marketers talk about programmatic advertising, they picture a clean pipe: a brand puts a dollar in one end, an algorithm ...

Genome editing lets scientists rewrite DNA, the instruction manual inside every living cell, with a precision that was unthinkable a generation ago. Technologies such as CRISPR have made this almost ...

"A dark patch could be where the film had turned to goo..." - Building an algorithm to flatten and process warped and damaged film. Hopefully you've been following our series of posts about efforts to ...

To address the issues of feature mismatching and map overlap drift in simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) within degraded environments characterized by sparse geometric features or severe ...

Estimating the number of triangles in a graph is a fundamental problem and has found applications in many fields. This problem has been widely studied in the context of graph stream processing.

Just as there’s no single best way to organize your bookshelf, there’s no one-size-fits-all solution to storing information. Consider the simple situation where you create a new digital file. Your ...

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 ...

You then repeat the process until every book is in its proper place. Insertion Sort takes a smarter approach. Instead of dragging the largest item to the end, it builds a sorted section piece by piece ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. Computer scientists often deal with abstract problems that are hard to comprehend, but an exciting new algorithm matters to anyone who ...

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 ...