In 1914, Indian mathematician Srinivasa Ramanujan published a short paper detailing several unusual formulas for calculating ...

Marc Andreessen wrote in 2011 that "software is eating the world." If this is true, then algorithms are doing much of the digesting. Big data of 21st century exabyte scale is useless without ...

Based on complex numerical algorithms programs are used in many areas of life. They track changes in stock prices of companies on the largest stock exchanges, solve complex logistic problems while ...

It used to be simpler. You woke up, and there was one newspaper you could read. It printed on pulp and delivered to your driveway. You got in your car, and there was a Sears strategically located ...

The YouTube algorithm is often seen as a mysterious black box, determining which videos rise to fame and which languish in obscurity. But according to Todd Beaupré, who manages YouTube's ...

The Arkansas Department of Human Services is appealing a judge's order that prohibits it from using an algorithm to allocate hours of home-based care to disabled Medicaid recipients. In a May 14 ...