The black box of algorithms in public and private life can be impenetrable for journalists, constrained by trade secret exemptions and situational awareness — despite the fact that they can have a ...

Gift from Thomas and Susan Dunn supports creation of the Bike Shop @UChicago, which aims to shape AI development and build ...

e all remember Clippy, right? He of the friendly, persistent “It looks like you’re writing a letter. Would you like help?” Clippy made sense in theory, but in practice, the office assistant made users ...

Algorithms shape search, social media, and reputations, prioritizing relevance, engagement, quality, and machine ...

Earthquakes take a dreadful human toll. Some 10,000 people die each year in earthquakes and their aftermath, but the toll can be much higher. Over 230,000 people died in the tsunami that followed the ...

We are seeking a creative developer with a strong statistics and machine learning background to join Sloan Kettering Institute’s Single Cell Research Initiative (SCRI). The team’s goal is to develop ...

Scientists at Duke-NUS Medical School, Singapore, and Monash University, Australia, say they have devised an algorithm that can predict what molecules are needed to keep cells healthy in laboratory ...

A team of scientists from the U.S. Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) has won a prestigious Gordon Bell Prize, sponsored by the Association for Computing ...