Binary search is the page-flipping trick everyone learns in their first programming class: to find a word in a sorted list, look at the middle, decide whether your target is in the top or bottom half, ...

You might not think that it would be possible to have a favorite optimization algorithm, but I do. And if you’re well-versed in the mathematical art of hill climbing, you might be surprised that my ...

Linguistics and computer science intertwined in the mid-20th century. Computers help linguists better understand and analyze languages and computer scientists use linguistics to advance programming.