At the upcoming ACM Symposium on Theory of Computing, MIT researchers are expected to report that the Wagner-Fischer algorithm cannot be improved upon because it’s as good and efficient as it gets.

A new technique breaks Dijkstra's 70-year-old record: it finds routes faster in huge networks, changing graph theory forever.

For about a decade, computer engineer Kerem Çamsari employed a novel approach known as probabilistic computing. Based on probabilistic bits (p-bits), it’s used to solve an array of complex ...

Network slowdowns could soon be a thing of the past, thanks to a superfast new algorithm. The breakthrough offers a dramatically faster solution to a problem that has been plaguing computer scientists ...

Since the very first days of computer science — a field known for its methodical approach to problem-solving — randomness has played an important role. The first program to run on the world’s first ...