The first time I heard about hash tables was after taking a compilers course during my BSc. The truth is, I was not able to understand and appreciate their usefulness fully back then. Now that I know ...

It isn't often that a decades-old assumption underpinning modern technology is overturned, but a recent paper based on the work of an undergraduate and his two co-authors has done just that.… That ...

People have been working on perfecting hashing since computing's early days. The result has been an almost endless number of hashing methods and tables. Facebook has faced this problem as well. Within ...

Hope some of the perl gurus can help out ... I'm just starting out w/ Perl and I have some of the very rudimentary basics down and I'm able to create my very own hash table ... I know, yeah yeah, big ...

I want to have a very large hash table, i.e. so big it won't fit into memory. What's a good way to do that? I could use a database, but since it's only going to be key => value pairs that I am storing ...

A few Wednesdays ago, on a sunny autumn morning, I popped into Sweet Maple Cafe on Taylor Street. I hadn't been in a while ...