according to a report in this week’s edition of the journal Science. Computer algorithms are used to make decisions in a range of settings, from courtrooms to schools to online shopping sites.

This week, at the IEEE Symposium on Foundations of Computer Science ... for example, the cost function might impose penalties for weight and drag but reward legroom and visibility; in an algorithm ...

Algorithms are one of the four cornerstones of Computer Science. An algorithm is a plan, a set of step-by-step instructions to solve a problem. If you can tie shoelaces, make a cup of tea ...

The findings, described Thursday in the journal Science ... of the problem — and it isn’t the computer program. “We shouldn’t be blaming the algorithm,” said study leader Dr. Ziad ...

For example, the first algorithm was still focused on fixed ... in a second paper accepted by the IEEE Symposium on Foundations of Computer Science (FOCS) in October, the ETH researchers have ...

The researchers also proved that some problems in mining large amounts of data were NP-complete — a computer science classifier for ... but may or may not have an efficient algorithm for finding a ...

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The first case might occur, for example, if a deep-learning algorithm is fed more photos ... he calls the “portability trap.” Within computer science, it is considered good practice to design ...

Students will gain experience with the theory and practice of computer science as they explore algorithms, programming languages and operating systems, for example. In classes, majors may apply ...