Quantum computers need vastly fewer resources than thought to break vital encryption

Building a utility-scale quantum computer that can crack one of the most vital cryptosystems—elliptic curves—doesn’t require ...

Sir Tony Hoare, software designer who developed Quicksort, the industry standard for sorting lists

Sir Tony Hoare, who has died aged 92, was a leading figure in computer software design best known for developing a leading ...
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Quicksort inventor Tony Hoare reaches the base case at 92

Obit Professor Charles Anthony Richard Hoare has died at the age of 92. Known to many computer science students as C. A. R. Hoare, and to his friends as Tony, he was not only one of the greatest minds ...