To provide clarity and avert potential harms, algorithms that impact human lives would ideally be reviewed by an independent body before they're deployed, just as environmental impact reports must be ...

When it comes to teaching math, a debate has persisted for decades: How, and to what degree, should algorithms be a focus of learning math? The step-by-step procedures are among the most debated ...

Algorithms, particularly in the form of artificial intelligence and machine learning, are proliferating in finance and changing how we make decisions. Algorithms have been around for a while in the ...

Researchers from MIT and elsewhere have developed a more user-friendly and efficient method to help networking engineers ...

Among high school students and adults, girls and women are much more likely to use traditional, step-by-step algorithms to solve basic math problems – such as lining up numbers to add, starting with ...

After several years of increased antitrust scrutiny involving pricing algorithms (and hundreds of presentations at antitrust conferences around the globe), the people who matter are finally starting ...

Imagine a town with two widget merchants. Customers prefer cheaper widgets, so the merchants must compete to set the lowest price. Unhappy with their meager profits, they meet one night in a ...