Researchers have devised an "absurdly fast" algorithm to solve the problem of finding the fastest flow through a network.

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The challenge with Google is that its search algorithm is a secret. So, we are left to try to decipher the rules based on updates and feedback that Google issues along the way — much like ...

This past October, as Jacob Holm and Eva Rotenberg were thumbing through a paper they’d posted a few months earlier, they realized they had been sitting on something big. For decades computer ...

Lightning-fast algorithms for changing networks On Thursday, Simon Meierhans -- a member of Kyng's team -- presented a new almost-linear-time algorithm at the Annual ACM Symposium on Theory of ...

The more efficient the algorithm, the less work the software has to do. And as algorithms are enhanced, less computing power should be needed — in theory. But this isn’t settled science.

At the same time, blaming algorithms, which are nothing more than mathematical tools, would be a mistake. In this case, the culprit is to be found elsewhere.