When technological innovations are first launched, they disrupt engrained ways of doing things. But after a while, the ...

In 1960, a 23-year-old Soviet mathematician named Anatoly Karatsuba stunned the world of mathematics with a revolutionary ...

As machine-learning algorithms are being used to replace human decision-making in various areas of life including hiring, law enforcement, and pretrial bail, AOC’s point is a crucial one.

In an influential 2017 paper titled “ Algorithmic Decision Making and the Cost of Fairness,” the researchers argue that algorithms can attain higher accuracy if they aren’t also required to ...

"Algorithms are the new arbiters of human decision-making in almost any area we can imagine, from watching a movie (Affectiva emotion recognition) to buying a house (Zillow.com) to self-driving ...

Everyday Math is another form of rebellion, in this case against what people who seem to dislike numbers think of as “boring”: drills, algorithms, practice … all the things that work memory ...

The University of Wisconsin Department of Mathematics and UW-iSchool partnered with the University Lectures Committee to host mathematician Cathy O’Neil Tuesday evening at the Fluno Center. O’Neil is ...

In other domains, what’s described above as a model is itself called an algorithm. Though that’s confusing, under the broadest definition it is also accurate: models are rules (learned by the ...

The advancement of algorithms may result in the loss of human judgment, a new report says. Experts on the subject weigh the pros and cons of computer code that aims to make our lives easier.