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 ...

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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 ...

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Java 23, now generally available, includes previews of module import declarations, stream gatherers, structured concurrency, scoped values, and a class-file API. And much more. Java Development Kit ...