For better accountability, we should shift the focus from the design of these systems to their impact. Describing a decision-making system as an “algorithm” is often a way to deflect ...

Will algorithms designed for interconnected computers hold up if some of the machines are not here on Earth but flying about ...

For financial algorithms, the more complex the program, the more data the software ... sets (such as satellite images and point of sale systems) to analyze potential investments.

It covers basic algorithm design techniques such as divide and conquer, dynamic programming, and greedy algorithms. It concludes with a brief introduction to intractability (NP-completeness) . We will ...