Algorithms, which are just sets of instructions expressed in code, are harder to restrict than physical goods. But ...

The word “algorithm” can sometimes seem like a word designed to scare people away from math classes, much like the words “calculus”, “Fourier transform”, or “engineering exam”. But in reality it’s ...

Brian Sommer kicks off the new year with a positive book review that seeks to expand our understanding of the dangers behind some algorithms. Cathy O’Neil’s book, Weapons of Math Destruction, makes ...

It took X-ray fluorescence spectroscopy and a painting algorithm to reveal the hidden portrait of a peasant underneath the painting of Vincent Van Gogh’s “Patch of Grass.” And that feat, accomplished ...