Then I got into computer science… by chance, through correction codes and information theory ... One problem was that the Viterbi algorithm makes binary choices: the bit was either switched ...

Anyone who has taken a basic computer science class has undoubtedly spent time devising a sorting algorithm—code that will take an unordered list of items and put them in ascending or descending ...

Barbara Liskov pioneered the modern approach to writing code. She warns that the challenges facing ... I read the [chess] textbooks and translated those algorithms into computer science. In those days ...

Emma Pierson (@2plus2make5) is a Rhodes Scholar and computer science PhD ... t be answered with code. When I coded at Coursera, an online education company, I developed an algorithm that would ...

Algorithms are one of the four cornerstones of Computer Science. An algorithm is a plan, a set of step-by-step instructions to solve a problem. If you can tie shoelaces, make a cup of tea ...