Researchers adapt model predictive control from engineering to epidemic response, balancing health and economic costs under ...

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. Computer scientists often ...

Book Excerpt From 'OTP Please': The Almighty Algorithm This book shares the human stories behind South Asia’s booming app economy, revealing who and what really power 'digital ease' ...

People Want to Know About Algorithms—but Not Too Much Let people look inside the black box of the algorithm, and their mistrust, hostility, and fear will gradually melt away. Right? Well, kinda.

When I received the Brooklyn Public Library’s recent email newsletter promoting a new service called BookMatch, I was both delighted and dismayed. On the one hand, it was a great idea. All I had to do ...

According to the results of the researchers, the algorithm is pretty racist. The study focuses on Facebook’s advertising delivery system, the second half of the platform’s ad process.

What happens when two algorithms get into a deathmatch over book pricing? You get a book about fly developmental biology that will run you more than $23 million plus shipping of course.

Artificial intelligence permeates everything at Facebook, the social network’s head of applied machine learning says—and humans are bound to understand Facebook less than ever.

Now, the book search algorithm takes into account more than 100 "signals," individual data categories that Google statistically integrates to rank your results.