In the world of big tech, algorithms are behind much of what we see online. They affect what users digitally encounter on a day-to-day basis, including the ads they are targeted with, the results they ...

Space and time aren’t just woven into the background fabric of the universe. To theoretical computer scientists, time and space (also known as memory) are the two fundamental resources of computation.

If you’ve been making the same commute for a long time, you’ve probably settled on what seems like the best route. But “best” is a slippery concept. Perhaps one day there’s an accident or road closure ...

Systems Approach Last year a couple of people forwarded to me the same article on a new method of finding shortest paths in networks.… The underlying research claims to improve on the classic approach ...

When Toronto author Stephen Marche set out to write his short story Twinkle Twinkle, he wanted it to be every bit as good as those written by his favourite sci-fi writers. So, in an experiment ...