The library sorting problem is used across computer science for organizing far more than just books. A new solution is less than a page-width away from the theoretical ideal.

An algorithm that predicts bestselling books has awarded a perfect score to The Circle by Dave Eggers, a book that just so happens to be a dystopian satire of life in Silicon Valley. Hmm. Said ...

This book explains how simple algorithms can be applied to our everyday lives, helping to solve common decision-making problems.

Hello World, book review: Algorithms, and how to live with them Human and machine working together can do better than either on their own, says mathematics lecturer Hannah Fry.

Machine learning programs have recently made huge advances. Stephen Marche tested one against Shakespeare’s collected works, to see if it could help him figure out which of the several versions ...

To compare the Fisher scoring algorithm with the expectation maximization (EM)-based ML method, we also developed a slightly simplified method to compute the variance–covariance matrix of the ...