There are many common examples of algorithms, from sorting sets of numbers to finding routes through maps to displaying information on a screen.

1. An algorithm is a set of very specific instructions How to bake a cake, find the sum of two plus two, or even run a country according to the U.S. Constitution are all examples of algorithms. Why?

This historical nugget represents an extreme example of the effect that algorithms have on our lives. The detection algorithm, it turns out, mistook the sun’s reflection for a missile launch. It is a ...

Last month, Twitter users uncovered a disturbing example of bias on the platform: An image-detection algorithm designed to optimize photo previews was cropping out Black faces in favor of white ...

Doctors in Quebec now have at their disposal a revised and improved tool to guide them in the optimal management of their ...

Alex Rosenblat, who reported extensively on Uber for her book, “Uberland: How Algorithms Are Rewriting the Rules of Work,” joins THINK to explain what happens when we turn algorithms into ...

So are humans and algorithms mutually exclusive then? Not necessarily! Consider that for many of us, the most familiar example of a machine-learning algorithm is probably the Facebook news feed.

Here we briefly survey some known quantum algorithms, with an emphasis on a broad overview of their applications rather than their technical details.

In a fraction of the run time required by DETMAX, the sequential algorithm finds a design with a relative D-efficiency of 46.4009 / 46.4922 = 99.8% compared to the best design found by the DETMAX ...