Computer scientists have invented a highly effective, yet incredibly simple, algorithm to decide which items to toss from a web cache to make room for new ones. Known as SIEVE, the new open-source ...

Scientists have different ideas of how to prevent that Traditional computer algorithms tend to show bias in favor of men when they use entrance exam scores to predict a student’s college grades.

Simple algorithms have been used for computer-based decision making for decades. Today, algorithms help ease otherwise-complicated processes all the time, whether we know it or not.

Today, an algorithm usually refers to “a sequence of instructions that tells a computer what to do.” A computer program is an algorithm, written in a computer programming language, that a ...

Simple, accurate, and efficient: Improving the way computers recognize hand gestures Optical hand gesture recognition sees improvements in accuracy and complexity with new algorithm Date: December ...

We called up a few experts to help us get a firm grasp on these concepts, starting with a basic definition of “algorithm.” The following is an edited transcript of the episode.