Turing Award winner Tony Hoare, computing pioneer who invented Quicksort, dies at the age of 92

An obituary of Tony Hoare, a pioneer and one of the greatest programmers in the early history of computing.
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Quicksort inventor Tony Hoare reaches the base case at 92

Classicist, philosopher, wit, and one of the greatest British computer scientists of all time Obit Professor Charles Anthony Richard Hoare has died at the age of 92. Known to many computer science ...

Ethiopia starts to bury its Marxist past

Floating the currency and selling off state assets could make the country a model for Africa’s closed economies.

Building trust in the future of quantum computing

Quantum computers could solve certain problems that would take traditional classical computers an impractically long time to solve. At the Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (JAIST), ...

Reverse Engineering March Madness Selection Committee Bracketology

Machine learning analysis reveals which metrics drive March Madness seeding and predictive analytics in committee decisions.
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Artificial intelligence

Dell cut its workforce by 10% for the third consecutive year, reducing staff to 97,000 employees amid cost management and artificial intelligence initiatives. Real estate mogul Ryan Serhant discusses ...
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Short Wave

New discoveries, everyday mysteries, and the science behind the headlines — in just under 15 minutes. It's science for everyone, using a lot of creativity and a little humor. Join hosts Emily Kwong ...