A new computer algorithm developed by the University of Toronto’s Parham Aarabi can store and recall information strategically – just like our brains. The associate professor in the Edward S. Rogers ...

But he had a unique tool – a computer algorithm designed to identify and sort tweets by characteristics such as hopelessness or loneliness to reveal a pattern only a machine could find.

Where will the next crime happen? Who might commit it? The Los Angeles Police Department is using computer algorithms to try and predict crime in order to prevent it - and not everyone is happy.

Algorithm designed by Google-owned startup DeepMind wins various Atari games with no preprogrammed information of any kind — it truly learned how to play.

Janelle Shane, a computer engineer from Lafayette, Colo., has designed an artificial intelligence that generates Halloween costume ideas — and so far, it has come up with some real doozies.

Heaps and Bounds The story of this iconic path-finding algorithm began with a detour. In 1956, the 26-year-old Dutch computer scientist Edsger Dijkstra wanted to write a program that would show off ...

This is where the new computer algorithm that I've developed and published in Science Advances comes in. It promises to dramatically reduce the spin-up time of the ocean and other components of ...