Online algorithms are designed to make decisions sequentially, without complete knowledge of future inputs. In many real-world applications—from scheduling and resource allocation to network ...

A tech pioneer’s 1948 theory explains how modern algorithms are shaping our society—and why we need to make them democratic.

Can we ever really trust algorithms to make decisions for us? Previous research has proved these programs can reinforce society’s harmful biases, but the problems go beyond that. A new study shows how ...

In the 2002 science fiction blockbuster film Minority Report, Tom Cruise's character John Anderton uses his hands, sheathed in special gloves, to interface with his wall-sized transparent computer ...

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Researchers at the Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute (SBP) say they have begun the first comparative analysis of a new category of algorithms that mine genetic information in cancer ...