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 ...