Whenever I explain that work, I end up explaining the same thing first: where path planning sits in an autonomous system, and ...

AI is continuing to make breakthroughs in math and computing. AI evaluation firm Vals AI says it set ten instances of Claude Opus 5.5 loose on one of computer science’s oldest problems, and came away ...

I first encountered Dijkstra’s hot takes nearly four years ago, not long after I joined Quanta as a staff writer covering computer science. The subject was new to me — I’d been a physics journalist, ...

Algorithms form the foundation of modern software development. From sorting and searching to hashing, graph processing, and dynamic programming, these techniques improve efficiency, optimize ...

Shortest path algorithms sit at the heart of modern graph theory and many of the systems that move people, data, and goods around the world. After nearly seventy… Shortest path algorithms sit at the ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. 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 ...

Chinese computer scientists have solved a 40-year-old mathematics bottleneck, an advance that might help boost performance in hi-tech areas ranging from chip design and telecommunications to drone ...

There is a new sorting algorithm a deterministic O(m log2/3 n)-time algorithm for single-source shortest paths (SSSP) on directed graphs with real non-negative edge weights in the comparison-addition ...