“How do you take a big collection of things and make sense out of it?” asks Gary Flake, founder and director of Microsoft Live Labs, a division of the software giant that designs experimental ...

In this module the student will learn the very basics of algorithms through three examples ... the priority queue data structure and showcase some applications. We will go through the quicksort and ...

Bruise inducing high-fives, anyone? They're handing them out in Redmond, according to one mildly injured researcher, after breaking a data sorting record Yahoo set in 2009. The ruckus surrounds a ...

Unveiled this morning on the company's official blog, Google uses London as an example to demonstrate its latest tool. "Sorting by subject shows that some of the most popular images associated ...

Besting a record set by Yahoo in 2009, the research arm of Microsoft have deployed a new technique for quickly sorting large amounts of data, called Flat Datacenter Storage (FDS). The researchers ...

Companies have conducted these tests for decades, producing immense data on the toxic limit ... hundreds of consumer products, for example), Smarter Sorting’s computing can find the median ...