The Mac OS X Address Book usually sorts contacts by first name or last name; however, after updating a system to Snow Leopard or even in an incremental update for Leopard, contacts may appear jumbled ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. Computer scientists often deal with abstract problems that are hard to comprehend, but an exciting new algorithm matters to anyone who ...

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 ...

A new half-a-million dollar computerized sorting system at the Napa library now whisks returned books from patrons’ hands to sorting carts and back to shelves faster and more efficiently than ever ...

Ready or not, like it or not, the time will come when you must give up a campus office and decide what to do with your books, papers, files, precious mementos, and other representations of your ...