But algorithms can also have mental-health problems based on the way they are built. They can forget older things when they learn new information. Imagine learning a new co-worker’s name and ...

Quantum computing has long promised to speed up these algorithms. But Goswami and co say even the best quantum algorithms require a large number of qubits. “The quantum algorithm for encoding 9 and 10 ...

No one has ever found an efficient algorithm for an NP-complete problem, and most computer scientists believe no one ever will. The question of whether the NP-complete problems are truly harder than ...

Can we ever really trust algorithms to make decisions for us? Previous research has proved these programs can reinforce society’s harmful biases, but the problems go beyond that.A new study ...

By applying a well-established quantum algorithm known as Grover’s algorithm to the number partitioning problem, they obtain a quadratic speedup compared to equivalent classical algorithms. The team ...

The A-level algorithm system advantaged private school students. Jonathan Brady/PA Wire/PA Images. There’s also a broader problem. Algorithms supported by machine learning aim not to replicate ...

This sort of exponential growth is the defining feature of a hard computational problem. But not all hard problems are equally hard — some have algorithms that are faster than exhaustive search, ...