A New Algorithm Beats Dijkstra's Time For The Shortest Path To Any Point In A Network

Dijkstra's algorithm has long been the quickest way of finding the shortest possible paths in a network, but researchers have ...
Nature

GPU-Based Sorting Algorithms and Parallel Processing

GPU-based sorting algorithms have emerged as a crucial area of research due to their ability to harness the immense parallel processing power inherent in modern graphics processing units. By ...
New Scientist

DeepMind AI's new way to sort objects could speed up global computing

An algorithm used trillions of times a day around the world could run up to 70 per cent faster, thanks to an artificial intelligence created by UK-based firm DeepMind. It has found an improved way for ...
The Next Web

DeepMind made its AI name in games. Now it’s playing with the foundations of computing

DeepMind has applied its mastery of games to a more serious business: the foundations of computer science. The Google subsidiary today unveiled AlphaDev, an AI system that discovers new fundamental ...
Ars Technica

AI system devises first optimizations to sorting code in over a decade

Anyone who has taken a basic computer science class has undoubtedly spent time devising a sorting algorithm—code that will take an unordered list of items and put them in ascending or descending order ...
MIT Technology Review

Google DeepMind’s game-playing AI just found another way to make code faster

The AI-generated algorithms are already being used by millions of developers. DeepMind’s run of discoveries in fundamental computer science continues. Last year the company used a version of its ...
New Scientist

Kids as young as 4 innately use sorting algorithms to solve problems

Children as young as 4 years old are capable of finding efficient solutions to complex problems, such as independently inventing sorting algorithms developed by computer scientists. The scientists ...