Who is interested in algorithms and why?
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Skiena, Steven S.
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Article
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1999
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Association for Computing Machinery
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We present "market research" for the field of combinatorial algorithms and algorithm engineering, attempting to determine which algorithmic problems are most in demand in applications. We analyze 1,503,135 WWW hits recorded on the Stony Brook Algorithms Repository (http://www.cs.sunysb.edu/~algorith