You might be familiar with the terms "seggs" and "unalive" if you've spent time on social media platforms. They're a part of ...

Distributed systems comprise a network of independent computing nodes that collaborate to achieve shared objectives despite challenges such as network latency, asynchrony and process failures.

Cigna is being sued over its insurance claims algorithm. Corbis via Getty Images The software system allows claim rejections without doctors ever opening patient medical records, according to the ...

This Algorithm Could Ruin Your Life A system used by the Dutch city of Rotterdam attempted to rank people based on their risk of fraud. The results were troubling. ILLUSTRATION: KATHERINE LAM ...

A Globe and Mail investigation this month found the CFIA’s move to an algorithm-based system for prioritizing inspections misjudged the risk associated with a facility in Pickering, Ont., that ...

“Many of these welfare systems that do this fraud detection may, in my opinion, be social scoring in practice,” says Matthias Spielkamp, cofounder of the nonprofit Algorithm Watch.

If your algorithm solves a real problem in a non-obvious way, it’s worth exploring protection. If you can describe its technical function and improvements clearly, it may qualify.