Computer scientists have invented a highly effective, yet incredibly simple, algorithm to decide which items to toss from a web cache to make room for new ones.

The DETMAX algorithm of Mitchell (1974a) is very commonly used for computer-generated optimal design. Although it is not the default search method for the OPTEX procedure, you can specify that it be ...

That's the question asked by a provocative piece of performance art by Goldsmiths, University of London MFA student Helen Knowles, in which a computer algorithm goes on trial for manslaughter.

YouTube is about to turn 20. An unusual research method is unveiling statistics about the platform that Google would rather keep hidden.

Computers are great a processing large amounts of data very quickly. What computers aren’t nearly as good at (though the ...