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One computer scientist’s “stunning” proof is the first progress in 50 years on one of the most famous questions in computer ...
When Arkansas started using an algorithm for a crucial health service, the program’s recipients struggled to understand what happened.
The story of the confrontation between man and machine in chess is not just a plot for science fiction. It is a real, ...
NPR's Scott Simon speaks with Washington Post columnist Michelle Singletary about how algorithms of computer-driven lending programs, somehow, manage to discriminate against minorities.
We made our own version of the Codebreaker sign-cracking algorithm — and talked to pitchers about how to thwart it.
An algorithm used to inform healthcare decisions for millions of people shows significant racial bias in its predictions of the health risks of black patients.
This is the Nobel Prize-winning algorithm that assigns graduating medical students to residency programs.
Get an overview of data structures and algorithms and how they work together in your Java programs ...
Over two years, a machine-learning program warned thousands of health care providers about patients at high risk of sepsis, allowing them to begin treatments nearly two hours sooner ...
An algorithm commonly used by hospitals and other health systems to predict which patients are most likely to need follow-up care classified white patients overall as being more ill than black ...