Most people know just one way to multiply two large numbers by hand. Typically, they learned it in elementary school. They’re often surprised to find that there are a variety of ways to do ...

We live in the era of big data. The huge volume of information we generate daily has major applications in various fields of science and technology, economy and management. For example, more and more ...

It covers basic algorithm design techniques such as divide and conquer, dynamic programming, and greedy algorithms. It concludes with a brief introduction to intractability (NP-completeness) .

When assembling a large quantity of reads in a genomic shotgun project a serious limitation is the amount of random access memory (RAM) of the computers used in the project. This arises because all ...

Artificial intelligence researchers have long used games to train their machine learning algorithms. A team of researchers at Microsoft has recently cracked another game, this time creating a novel ...