Renowned computer scientist John Hopcroft is helping improve the quality of undergraduate education in China. The 79-year-old US citizen earned a doctorate in electrical engineering from Stanford ...

Gothenburg promised to optimise school admissions with a piece of code. The resulting chaos showed how unaccountable systems are ruining lives We like to imagine that injustice announces itself loudly ...

As one of a number of people helping to make fundamental changes in the way computer science is taught in Chinese schools, John Edward Hopcroft, the 1986 Turing Award laureate from the United States, ...

The Hopcroft–Karp algorithm is the most efficient way to find a maximum cardinality matching in a bipartite graph. Think of applicants for jobs, each applicant has skills for a certain sub-set of the ...

If it feels like social platforms suddenly “get” you more than they used to, you’re not imagining it! In 2026, feeds aren’t only reacting to what you click anymore. They’re predicting what you ...

Can Tom Hopcroft’s experience running one of the state’s most prominent tech associations help him get elected to the state Senate — and help the Senate, if he gets there? Hopcroft is setting out to ...

It’s hard to ignore the seismic shifts brought about by algorithm-driven content. Every time you scroll through your social media feed or check your favorite news app, algorithms are diligently at ...

Birmingham City have completed the signing of former Crystal Palace midfielder Shanade Hopcroft on a free transfer. WSL Full-Time were informed of the news via an official club press release from ...

While the creation of this new entity marks a big step toward avoiding a U.S. ban, as well as easing trade and tech-related tensions between Washington and Beijing, there is still uncertainty ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. If you want to solve a tricky problem, it often helps to get organized. You might, for example, break the problem into pieces and tackle ...