A rare 175 year-old book containing the world's first computer algorithm by Ada Lovelace – mathematician and daughter of Lord Byron – has been sold at auction in England for £95,000 (US$125,000).

Known today as Karatsuba’s Algorithm, this breakthrough challenged the long-held belief that multiplying two n-digit numbers ...

Dr. Smith shows you a computer printout filled with incomprehensible numbers and terms. But he points to a line near the bottom of the form that reads: “TAPANULI FEVER: 17.88.” “That risk ...

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.

Aho, 79, and Ullman, 78, were honored for creating some the underlying algorithms and theories that made computer programming accessible to non experts.

People’s comfort level with algorithms often depends on how they are used. For instance, three-quarters of social media users say it is acceptable for social media platforms to use data about them and ...