Examples of ADTs include Employee, Vehicle, Array, and List. Consider the List ADT (also known as the Sequence ADT), which describes an ordered collection of elements that share a common type.

In his book The Master Algorithm, Pedro Domingos offers a masterfully simple definition: “An algorithm is,” Domingos writes, “a sequence of instructions telling a computer what to do.” ...

The problem asks how much material can flow through a network from a source to a destination if the links in the network have capacity limits. The new algorithm is “absurdly fast,” said Daniel ...