Pedro Domingos, computer science professor at the University of Washington, offers an overview of the current state of machine learning in his just-published book, “The Master Algorithm: How the ...

Computer algorithms have designed highly efficient synthetic enzymes from scratch, with minimal need for tedious hands-on ...

SASI, a Semi-supervised Algorithm for Sarcasm Identification, can recognize sarcastic sentences in product reviews online with pretty astounding 77 percent precision.

Even computer algorithms can be biased. Scientists have different ideas of how to prevent that. Traditional computer algorithms tend to show bias in favor of men when they use entrance exam scores ...

Computer scientists have written a network flow algorithm that computes almost as fast as is mathematically possible. This algorithm computes the maximum traffic flow with minimum transport costs ...