Kruskal’s algorithm finds a Minimum Spanning Tree (MST) by building it edge by edge, always choosing the cheapest edge that doesn’t create a cycle. Sorting all edges in the graph from smallest weight ...

As the world races to build artificial superintelligence, one maverick bioengineer is testing how much unprogrammed intelligence may already be lurking in our simplest algorithms to determine whether ...

What would you like to Propose? I would like to propose adding a new sorting algorithm — Tournament Sort — in the sorts package. Tournament Sort is a comparison-based sorting algorithm that simulates ...

If you want to solve a tricky problem, it often helps to get organized. You might, for example, break the problem into pieces and tackle the easiest pieces first. But this kind of sorting has a cost.

Community driven content discussing all aspects of software development from DevOps to design patterns. One of the Java platform’s enduring strengths has always been its ecosystem. Since the early ...

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 ...

The looming challenges of quantum computing have prompted the Java Platform to implement two advanced cryptographic solutions in its upcoming release, Java 24, slated for March 2025. Quantum computers ...

OpenAI’s latest generative AI model is much better at code generation than previous models, but slower and more expensive — and not quite ready for production. “Ho, hum,” I thought in response to the ...