Algorithms are everywhere. They rule our lives. They decide what we see on social media, which ads get targeted to us, which route we should take to get places. If it used to be The Man keeping us ...

An algorithm designed to discover near-Earth asteroids has identified its first "potentially hazardous asteroid," researchers from the University of Washington said in a statement. The algorithm, ...

Sign up for the daily CJR newsletter. On March 15, Instagram posted a note on its blog that sent the internet into a frenzy: “To improve your experience, your feed ...

Back in 1986 Hal Abelson, a professor of computer science and electrical engineering at MIT, stood in front of room of students and welcomed them to their first coding class. As he scrawled “COMPUTER ...

It sounds a bit complicated, but algorithms are not magical things that live in our computers and dictate our digital lives at random. They are created by people and implemented to serve a purpose.

The history of the social sciences has included a succession of advances in the ability to make observations and carefully test hypotheses. The compilation of massive data sets, for example, and the ...

For better accountability, we should shift the focus from the design of these systems to their impact. Describing a decision-making system as an “algorithm” is often a way to deflect accountability ...