The bookshelf problem (which computer scientists call the “list labeling” problem) is one of the most basic topics in the field of data structures. “It’s the kind of problem you’d teach to freshman or ...

NPR's Scott Simon speaks with Washington Post columnist Michelle Singletary about how algorithms of computer-driven lending programs, somehow, manage to discriminate against minorities.

This is the Nobel Prize-winning algorithm that assigns graduating medical students to residency programs.

An algorithm used to inform healthcare decisions for millions of people shows significant racial bias in its predictions of the health risks of black patients.

Researchers who dug through nearly 50,000 records discovered that the algorithm effectively low-balled the health needs of the hospital’s black patients. Using its output to help select patients ...

Researchers have found that a common algorithm used by hospitals often classified white patients overall as being more ill than black patients — even when they were just as sick.

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

The intervention, an app called MediTrain, uses a closed-loop algorithm that tailors the length of meditation sessions to the abilities of the participants.

This is the Nobel Prize-winning algorithm that assigns graduating medical students to residency programs.