The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. If you want to solve a tricky problem, it often helps to get organized. You might, for example, break the problem into pieces and tackle ...

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An illustrated 7-poster sketchnote set covering the core of GCSE Computer Science algorithms and programming. Designed for secondary school Computing classrooms and student revision walls. The set ...

AI can help theoretical computer scientists search for algorithms, proof components, and combinatorial structures. Here’s what recent results show—and why verification still matters.

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“So, he’s the Beyoncé of this event?” a young woman standing behind me says to a colleague. The three of us are standing, looking at the back of a crowd, whose members are all looking at a bearded man ...

It's a simple word that has developed a sinister connotation: algorithm. For many of us, algorithms help determine what we watch, read and listen to — in the process, confirming our tastes and biases, ...