The World Bank funds a poverty relief program in Jordan that uses an algorithm that stiffs the poorest people, Human ... Though it’s known Takaful uses 57 different criteria to rank ...

Over the past decade, fuzzers have become the most widely used tools to test software security and robustness. Generating ...

Overall, the slides indicate, the NSA machine learning algorithm uses more than 80 different properties to rate people on their terroristiness. The program, the slides tell us, ...

The company has been in business since 2008, but last year 2U began making business decisions based on what it calls its program selection algorithm. The algorithm combines information from a number ...

A puzzle that has long flummoxed computers and the scientists who program them has suddenly become far more manageable. A new algorithm efficiently solves the graph isomorphism problem, computer ...

A computer program used for bail and sentencing decisions was labeled biased against blacks. It’s actually not that clear. October 17, 2016 More than 8 years ago ...

A computer algorithm modeled after the human brain haslearned how to recognize different galaxy types ranging from spiral toelliptical, and can now help flesh-and-blood stargazers with the ...

A venture capital firm has appointed a computer algorithm to its board of directors. The program - called Vital - will vote on whether to invest in a specific company or not.