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Static program analysis is a cornerstone in verifying, optimising, and debugging modern software systems. By evaluating code without executing it, these techniques enable early detection of ...
A coalition of human rights groups have today launched legal action against the French government over its use of algorithms to detect miscalculated welfare payments, alleging they discriminate ...
Online pricing algorithms can game the system and ultimately end up costing the consumer more. And the impact of these program can go beyond just a few extra dollars at checkout.
Insurers argue that patients can always pay for any treatment themselves, so they’re not really being denied care. But this argument ignores reality. These decisions have serious health consequences, ...
The Death and Life of an Admissions Algorithm U of Texas at Austin has stopped using a machine-learning system to evaluate applicants for its Ph.D. in computer science. Critics say the system ...
When the researchers compared black patients and white patients to whom the algorithm assigned similar risk scores, they found the black patients were significantly sicker, for example with higher ...
TNP: What kind of training workloads will be best suited to quantum systems (we’ll discuss annealing vs. gate model in a moment)? Sundararaghavan: Early machine learning algorithms on quantum ...
A health care algorithm makes black patients substantially less likely than their white counterparts to receive important medical treatment. The major flaw affects millions of patients, and was ...
A study published Thursday in Science has found that a health care risk-prediction algorithm, a major example of tools used on more than 200 million people in the U.S., demonstrated racial bias ...
The online master’s in cybersecurity program is designed to prepare a new generation of cybersecurity professionals with both the technical skills and theoretical knowledge to address evolving ...
How Michigan’s attempt to automate its unemployment system went horribly wrong ...