Abstract: This paper considers the basic question of how strong of a probabilistic guarantee can a hash table, storing $n(1+\Theta(1))\log n$-bit key/value pairs ...

Community driven content discussing all aspects of software development from DevOps to design patterns. Sometimes it’s nice to format the output of a console based Java program in a friendly way. The ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. Sometime in the fall of 2021, Andrew Krapivin, an undergraduate at Rutgers University, encountered a paper that would change his life.

Abstract: Chord DHT (Distributed Hash Table) is a robust solution to a basic problem encountered in peer-to-peer (P2P) applications: efficiently locating the node that stores specific data items. In ...

A young computer scientist and two colleagues show that searches within data structures called hash tables can be much faster than previously deemed possible. Sometime in the fall of 2021, Andrew ...

Computing practitioners encounter hash functions almost every day, although they may not necessarily be the center of attention. When you install software packages or updates, the authenticity of a ...