Hardware and Software Art

Lupulack writes "Worried about where your discarded obsolete technology ends up ? If it's lucky it might be at electronic-ouroborus.com/, where broken - down electronics are transformed into eye pleasing sculpture. Recycling can be art." And yaxu writes "The runme software art repository is now open. Share your favourite piece of software art; whether it be an algorithm, an irc bot, a software app misappropriation, a virus or sendmail exploit..."

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Tradeoffs

[Sneftel]

Interesting... the former site has captured aesthetic elegance yet not functional elegance, and the second site has captured functional elegance but not aesthetic elegance. IMHO, true "tech-art" would need both of these qualities. Any takers?

Three algorithms that got me into computer science

[Anonymous Coward]

10 years ago, when I still thought CS was all about programming, I came across three algorithms that really changed my view of the field. Each of them was relatively short, completely non-obvious to me at the time, and a really elegant way of solving a problem:

1) The merge sort solution to the closest pair problem (http://www.cis.ohio-state.edu/~gurari/course/cis6 80/cis680Ch18.html#QQ1-50-122) which I found in Sedgewick's Algorithms (now available in modern languages like C and Java but I had the Pascal version)

2) The Knuth-Morris-Pratt algorithm for string searching (http://www-igm.univ-mlv.fr/~lecroq/string/node8.h tml) which was demonstrated to me on a napkin and introduced me to this guy named Knuth whose books I later bought

3) Tarjan's linear time solution to the strongly connected components problem (http://www.cs.pdx.edu/~herb/cs410f99/scc.htm) that I found flipping through Cormen-Leierson-Rivest and led to an unexpected purchase just so I could read more

(Not that anybody is going to be reading this AC post but I thought I'd share)