Abstract: The extensive adoption of cloud computing platforms in storing and processing data have brought forth a new age of efficiency in the way data is stored, processed and managed, requiring new ...

I don’t use Microsoft Excel all that often, so it remains a bit of a mystery to me. I can enter text and create graphs and that’s basically it. That’s why I’ve set myself a goal to learn one new Excel ...

While the dawn of quantum computing may still be years away, federal agencies are facing a future threat that has already arrived. Adversaries are actively stealing encrypted government information ...

If you rotate an image of a molecular structure, a human can tell the rotated image is still the same molecule, but a machine-learning model might think it is a new data point. In computer science ...

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The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. Computer scientists often deal with abstract problems that are hard to comprehend, but an exciting new algorithm matters to anyone who ...

So here you are, taking a course on data structures and algorithms. But what is a “data structure”? What is an “algorithm”? The textbook gives these definitions: “An algorithm is a recipe for ...