So, an algorithm is the process a computer uses to transform input data into output data. A simple concept, and yet every piece of technology that you touch involves many algorithms.

Big data algorithms can discriminate, and it’s not clear what to do about it Published: August 13, 2015 1:56am EDT. Jeremy Kun, University of Illinois Chicago. Author.

Most medical algorithms are trained on data collected in New York, California, and Massachusetts. That might skew they’re accuracy if they’re used in other places, researchers suggest.

That's according to a November Capterra survey of 300 US human resources leaders, which found that 98% of respondents plan to use software and algorithms to help them make any layoff decisions in ...

Streaming algorithms are helpful in any situation where you’re monitoring a database that’s being updated continuously. This could be AT&T keeping tabs on data packets or Google charting the ...

How can an algorithm become biased? This may happen, if data that records socially biased human decisions is used for training a machine learning algorithm, which will then reproduce biased decisions, ...

The question of how much power algorithms have over our lives has a topical edge. Already there are lines of code that tell us what to watch, whom to date, and even whom to send to jail. In Hello ...