Scientists have teamed up to evaluate the tools used to probe the cancer genome. Their work classifies and describes the strengths and weaknesses of more than 20 algorithms developed by independent ...

Brokers and vendors are seemingly offering clients more algorithmic products than Kellogg's has cornflakes. An exaggeration? Of course, but you get the idea. The buyside, however, might just feel that ...

OpenAI, the nonprofit artificial intelligence research company established last year with backing from several Silicon Valley figures, today announced its first product: a proving ground for ...

That question in the headline was the challenge posed by a group of open knowledge junkies in Germany who wanted to understand how a person’s Schufa was calculated. Schufa is a credit bureau that ...

As organizations increasingly replace human decision-making with algorithms, they may assume these computer programs lack our biases. But algorithms still reflect the real world, which means they can ...