Turing Award winner Tony Hoare, computing pioneer who invented Quicksort, dies at the age of 92

An obituary of Tony Hoare, a pioneer and one of the greatest programmers in the early history of computing.
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Quicksort inventor Tony Hoare reaches the base case at 92

Classicist, philosopher, wit, and one of the greatest British computer scientists of all time Obit Professor Charles Anthony Richard Hoare has died at the age of 92. Known to many computer science ...
Tech Xplore

Shortest paths research narrows a 25-year gap in graph algorithms

Most of you have used a navigation app like Google Maps for your travels at some point. These apps rely on algorithms that ...
IEEE

Bridging Evolutionary Algorithms and Reinforcement Learning: A Comprehensive Survey on Hybrid Algorithms

Abstract: Evolutionary reinforcement learning (ERL), which integrates the evolutionary algorithms (EAs) and reinforcement learning (RL) for optimization, has demonstrated remarkable performance ...
IEEE

An Experimental Analysis on Different Pivot Selection Approaches for the Quicksort Algorithm

Abstract: The research primarily examines the significance of pivot selection of the widely used QuickSort algorithm in order to increase the overall performance and ...
The Conversation

A few weeks of X’s algorithm can make you more right‑wing – and it doesn’t wear off quickly

Timothy Graham receives funding from the Australian Research Council (ARC) for the Discovery Project, 'Understanding and Combatting "Dark Political Communication"'. A new study published today in ...