Hillsdale College graduate Isaac Myhal, ’26, turned his senior thesis into a groundbreaking achievement in computer science: developing the world’s fastest mapping library. His research produced a tool approximately twice as fast as the C++ standard library, with the potential to improve the efficiency of computer systems worldwide. He found it was even faster than gperf — the state-of-the-art tool used to power Firefox, Chrome, and the Python programming language — and more user-friendly. He has released it for public use. Myhal graduated from Hillsdale College earlier this year with a major in mathematics and minors in computer science and military history and strategy. Hillsdale College launched a minor in computer science in 2021.