As software and algorithms become an increasingly pervasive part of our lives, there’s growing interest and concern on how they are affecting society, the economy, and politics. Yet, most social ...

That’s what algorithms provide for society: a shortcut to getting a computer to do something it normally couldn’t. Algorithms provide the instructions for almost any AI system you can think of: ...

A few years ago I used an algorithm to help me write a science fiction story. Adam Hammond, an English professor, and Julian Brooke, a computer scientist, had created a program called SciFiQ, and ...

The Luhn algorithm—also known as the “Modulus 10 algorithm”—is a formula used to determine the accuracy of credit card numbers.

This article proposes an analogous algorithm for computing S-estimates. The new algorithm, that we call "fast-S", is also based on a "local improvement" step of the resampling initial candidates. This ...

Google’s new SMITH algorithm understands long-form content better than BERT ...

Courts, banks, and other institutions are using automated data analysis systems to make decisions about your life. Let’s not leave it up to the algorithm makers to decide whether they’re doing ...