The changing use of the word algorithm reflects this enhanced visibility. In fact, the meaning of this word has changed ...

In 1996, Dor, Halperin, and Zwick introduced an influential method that delivered a “2-approximation” in nearly optimal time. Its estimate would not exceed twice the true shortest distance. If two ...

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 ...

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 ...