Industries, particularly high tech, may be waiting for the U.S. Supreme Court decision, expected this coming spring, in the Bilski case to decide some fundamental questions of when you can patent ...

You’re at the checkout screen after an online shopping spree, ready to enter your credit card number. You type it in and instantly see a red error message ...

For a long time, mathematical modelling of social systems and dynamics was considered in the realm of science fiction. But predicting, and at once influencing human behavior is well on its way to ...

A federal judge has thrown out a patent claim against Rackspace, ruling that mathematical algorithms can’t be patented. The ruling in the Eastern Disrict stemmed from a 2012 complaint filed by Uniloc ...

There are, generally speaking, two types of people in the mathematical optimization software field: • Optimization solver developers: The technical experts who devise and implement the algorithms that ...

In this interview, mathematical siblings Gregory and David Chudnovsky, who seem to almost think with one mind, banter about numbers theory, advanced computing, and the importance and aesthetics of ...

Opinions expressed by Digital Journal contributors are their own. Elin Hauge has spent over two decades at the forefront of artificial intelligence, guiding businesses and leaders through the ...

Fabienne Serriere, founder of Seattle-based KnitYak, combined her hardware-hacking and hand-knitting hobbies to develop something truly unique: custom knit scarves that show mathematical algorithms.

Late last year, the Justice Department joined the growing list of agencies to discover that algorithms don’t heed good intentions. An algorithm known as PATTERN placed tens of thousands of federal ...