The results also point to the root of the problem — and it isn’t the computer program. “We shouldn’t be blaming the algorithm,” said study leader Dr. Ziad Obermeyer, a machine learning ...

[Kory] is using genetic algorithms to write computer programs, and in the process bringing us one step closer to the Singularity. The first experiments with genetic algorithms generating ...

But shouldn't the algorithms of computer-driven lending programs be blind to ethnicity? Not quite, according to a new study. Washington Post personal finance columnist Michelle Singletary has been ...

The basic algorithm used to make a matching between applicants and programs is fairly straightforward. An applicant — Alice — starts by applying to her first-choice program. There are three ...

The algorithm addresses something called the library sorting problem (more formally ... to Attract It The Choose Europe for Science program will invest more than half a billion dollars between ...

As the program develops, Argenta said he hopes the algorithm can be expanded to be forward-looking, as well, predicting how long it will take troops to recover from an illness and giving ...