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

The idea was to reverse engineer the algorithm by crowdsourcing copies of campaign emails and comparing the messages to basic survey data. When The Wall Street Journal and Singer-Vine wanted to find ...

Isolating ranking factors to see how changes affect ranking has always been the basis of algorithm testing. After the Panda and Penguin updates reverse engineering and even intentionally triggering ...

To this end, [Ken Shirriff] set about reverse engineering the 8086’s multiplication algorithm. [Ken]’s efforts were achieved by using die photos of the 8086 chip.

Often, when there’s talk about algorithms and journalism, the focus is on how to use algorithms to help publishers share content better and make more money. There’s the unending debate, for example, ...