One word in particular is used throughout computing – algorithm. In the most general sense, an algorithm is a series of instructions telling a computer ... by doing some math on those input ...

Will algorithms designed for interconnected computers hold up if some of the machines are not here on Earth but flying about ...

Computer programmers have ... people's interest in the general problem the algorithm solves," says Yin-Tat Lee, an MIT graduate student in mathematics and one of the paper's co-authors.

The last dimension of Keller's conjecture has been proven using a computer algorithm. The conjecture involves the way hypercubes in different dimensions share sides when tiled. The proof is ...

A few years later, Alan Turing and others built on his work, showing that mathematics is riddled with “undecidable” statements — problems that cannot be solved by any computer algorithm. These results ...

A study describes a new computer algorithm which can be ... Professor Khatiwala's new algorithm employs a mathematical approach known as sequence acceleration, which has its roots with the famous ...

researchers have been working to find an algorithm that can optimally solve this mathematical conundrum. Now, Christian Wulff-Nilsen of the University of Copenhagen's Department of Computer ...

This quantification places redistricting squarely in the mathematical realm ... When it is used, it is always implemented with a computer algorithm. Many companies could not survive without ...

She became disillusioned when she realised that computer algorithms were being used to ... activist and has written a book called Weapons of Math Destruction. When big data first became a buzzword ...