Pew Research Center released several reports in 2018 that explored the role and meaning of algorithms in people’s lives today. Here are some of the key themes that emerged from that research.

Accordingly, the Court construed the means-plus-function term as computer implementation requiring an algorithm, vacated the PTAB’s decision and remanded for the PTAB to consider whether the ...

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.

If you rotate an image of a molecular structure, a human can tell the rotated image is still the same molecule, but a machine ...

So the computer scientists developed a different type of algorithm that allowed users to more easily define what bad behavior they wanted their program to avoid. This, of course, makes the ...

However, in a proof-of-stake algorithm, new coins are "minted." In practice, the mining term is used in both cases. Delegated Proof-Of-Stake (DPoS) ...

By that definition of, er, a good definition, Ashton’s was bang-on. Or, as one reply to Hern’s tweets put it: Truly, this is peer-to-peer encryption in action ...

A recipe for brownies is an algorithm. So is the list of turns to make to drive to your friend’s party. A computer algorithm is no different, except that it’s written in code instead of words.

See proof-of-stake algorithm. In addition, proof-of-work (PoW) miners can become monopolistic, and any single miner with 51% or more of the network's computing power could invalidate good ...