A new algorithm shows promise in reducing these types of frustrating interactions. In a new paper published in Nature, researchers trained an algorithm to identify factors often missed by x-ray ...

Racial discrimination by algorithms or by people is harmful — but that’s where the similarities end.

This AI Algorithm Learns Simple Tasks as Fast as We Do Software that learns to recognize written characters from just one example may point the way towards more powerful, more humanlike artificial ...

Even if you know the word ' algorithm ', many people will not be able to answer well when asked 'what is an algorithm?' The IT news site Mashable, which interviewed computer science experts ...

Alex Rosenblat, who reported extensively on Uber for her book, “Uberland: How Algorithms Are Rewriting the Rules of Work,” joins THINK to explain what happens when we turn algorithms into ...

We introduce a simple algorithmic sampling method for choosing crossing-sets; we name the algorithm SPREAD (Selection of Pairings Reaching Evenly Across the Data).

Topline Amazon, the behemoth online retailer, used a secret algorithm called “Project Nessie” to determine how much to raise prices in a manner in which competitors would follow, according to ...

A marketing professor at Melbourne University says he has developed an algorithm to explain what makes an internet video go viral.

Squared extrapolation methods (SQUAREM): a new class of simple and efficient numerical schemes for accelerating the convergence of the EM algorithm, Department of Biostatistics Working Paper, Johns ...