Computer scientists from the University of California, San Diego broke "the terabyte barrier" – and a world record – when they sorted more than one terabyte of data (1,000 gigabytes or 1 million ...

The library sorting problem is used across computer science for organizing far more than just books. A new solution is less than a page-width away from the theoretical ideal. Computer scientists often ...

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 ...

The Saint Louis University Department of Computer Science is committed to the development and study of computing technologies for the greater good of humanity. SLU offers bachelor's, master's and ...

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 the easiest pieces first. But this kind of sorting has a cost.