What’s the best way to solve hard problems? That’s the question at the heart of a subfield of computer science called computational complexity theory. It’s a hard question to answer, but flip it ...

Now is the time to confront the algorithm. It is worth pointing out that to an extent we have been doing this since Chapter 1. When you are writing lists of instructions you are, in essence, ...

The binary search algorithm is perhaps the most advanced of the simple algorithms. It is easy enough to understand both the problem and its overall solution – the details might be a little trickier, ...

Adding a dash of encryption to key algorithms used in artificial intelligence models could – surprisingly – make them more efficient, thanks to a trick of mathematics. Cryptography normally involves ...