Last week was the first time I had ever attended a professional conference. It also marked the first time I had ever given a talk at a professional conference. The first first was easy. The…Continue Reading

There’s a story that’s been told for years about Jon Bentley (Programming Pearls, Addison-Wesley, 1986) coming excitedly into Bjarne Stroustrup’s office one day and posing a problem to him: “Insert a sequence of random integers…Continue Reading