Researchers adapt model predictive control from engineering to epidemic response, balancing health and economic costs under ...

An insight into the way machines make meaning. A few years ago I used an algorithm to help me write a science fiction story. Adam Hammond, an English professor, and Julian Brooke, a computer ...

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) recently began sounding the alarm about the potential pitfalls of using algorithms to automate human decision-making. She recently pointed out a fundamental ...

Quantum mechanics isn't easy. Sometimes, even scientists find it frustrating. Quantum physicist Mario Krenn and his colleagues in the group of Anton Zeilinger, from the Faculty of Physics at the ...

The world of matchmaking won't have to rely on luck, as much as math, thanks to one very accomplished teenager. Yunseo Choi, a senior at Phillips Exeter Academy in New Hampshire, came up with a ...

An algorithm that identifies abusive users may be useful to community moderators, but the study concluded that it could not be solely relied upon to troll-proof communities.

Two years ago, the real-estate company Zillow began a program to buy and sell homes. The idea of the program, Zillow Offers, was to use the company’s large amount of historical real-estate data to ...

In 1983, at the height of the Cold War, just one man stood between an algorithm and the outbreak of nuclear war. Stanislav Petrov, a colonel of the Soviet Air Defence Forces, was on duty in a secret ...

Get the latest federal technology news delivered to your inbox. In the battle for the cloud, Google wants to make its AI offering as easy as drag and drop. Today (Jan. 17), the company announced Cloud ...