That’s why there is serious work underway to design new types of algorithms that are resistant to even the most powerful quantum computer we can imagine. What do these algorithms even do?

Can we ever really trust algorithms to make decisions for us? Previous research has proved these programs can reinforce society’s harmful biases, but the problems go beyond that. A new study ...

Every minute, machines are shaping somebody’s future, as software decides which hospital patients should get extra monitoring or which credit card applicants get a thumbs-down. The hope was that ...

So, an algorithm is the process a computer uses to transform input data into output data. A simple concept, and yet every piece of technology that you touch involves many algorithms.

While the algorithms are good at guaranteeing efficiency, they’re not great at simulating compassion and other human characteristics. So are humans and algorithms mutually exclusive then?

How algorithms reproduce social and racial inequality Dr. Safiya Noble explains how human bias creeps into the computer programs that govern and manage our lives ...

ALGORITHMS are everywhere. They play the stockmarket, decide whether you can have a mortgage and may one day drive your car for you. They search the internet when commanded, stick carefully chosen ...

Social media algorithms are what all social media platforms run on these days. They have led to a lot of changes to social media, and not always desired ones. If you are going to take advantage of ...

I outsourced several of my daily decisions to algorithms for a week, to better understand the lines of code playing a greater and greater role in guiding our lives.

Bringing heritage algorithms to the classroom Heritage algorithms give students a way to blend the abstract rigors of math, the grounded legacies of culture, and the infinite possibilities of art.