Turing Award winner Tony Hoare, computing pioneer who invented Quicksort, dies at the age of 92

An obituary of Tony Hoare, a pioneer and one of the greatest programmers in the early history of computing.
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Quicksort inventor Tony Hoare reaches the base case at 92

Classicist, philosopher, wit, and one of the greatest British computer scientists of all time Obit Professor Charles Anthony Richard Hoare has died at the age of 92. Known to many computer science ...

Cracking the code: How a “prediction machine” is resurrecting the Singapore Stone

Some years ago, my linguistic research team and I started to develop a computational tool aimed at reconstructing the text of ...

Quantum computing meets the Möbius molecule

Thanks to the alternating single-double nature of the bonds, electrons in these orbitals end up delocalized; the differences between the bonds become a bit irrelevant, and the molecule is best viewed ...
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Comparative Analysis of Sorting Algorithms: A Review

Abstract: In the realm of computer science, sorting algorithms play a pivotal role in optimising data organisation and retrieval processes across various applications. This paper presents a ...
IEEE

Fault Tolerance of Sorting Algorithms Under Varying Input Characteristics

Abstract: Bit flips in main memory or in the CPU can lead to silent data corruptions (SDCs) and therefore pose a threat to all modern computer systems. The selection of particularly fault-tolerant ...