Google is dramatically shortening its readiness deadline for the arrival of Q Day, the point at which existing quantum computers can break public-key cryptography algorithms that secure decades’ worth ...

Abstract: This full research paper explores undergraduate students' misconceptions of Dijkstra's algorithm quantitatively. Graph algorithm misconceptions have been studied to a modest extent, but they ...

As movies have morphed from a vibrant public event into a product we watch on our personal screens, film criticism has also been disrupted thanks to apps like Letterboxd. Fortunately, film critic A. S ...

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 years of relying on the same classic ...

When Edsger W. Dijkstra published his algorithm in 1959, computer networks were barely a thing. The algorithm in question found the shortest path between any two nodes on a graph, with a variant ...

Designed to accelerate advances in medicine and other fields, the tech giant’s quantum algorithm runs 13,000 times as fast as software written for a traditional supercomputer. A quantum computer at ...

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 tech giant ByteDance finalized its agreement to sell a majority stake in its video platform TikTok to a group of U.S. investors. TikTok announced on Jan. 22, 2026, that it has formed TikTok ...

I noticed that the Graph Algorithms section does not yet include the interactive and educational features that were recently introduced in the Sorting Algorithms page I would like to contribute by ...

Caleb Zimmerman’s most important mentoring relationship as a Central Michigan University undergraduate student didn’t start in a classroom or a lab. It began in a study area. Zimmerman, a Big Rapids ...