On July 15, the Bank of England revealed Alan Turing, a pioneer of computer science and artificial intelligence, will be the face of the new £50 note. One thing the announcement didn’t touch on, ...

An algorithm is given for constructing an alphabetic binary tree of minimum weighted path length (for short, an optimal alphabetic tree). The algorithm needs 4n 2 + 2n operations and 4n storage ...

DUO BINARY is a very, very small computer system in every possible sense. It runs on an ATtiny84, which has even got “tiny” in its name. The user interface is a single button for data entry and a ...

Barbie’s gone geek and she’s all about the binary. Earlier this month, Mattel announced that Barbie’s new career would be none other than a computer-science engineer. With sparkly black leggings and a ...