MIT researchers are turning to human intuition to improve planning algorithms. The International Conference on Automated Planning and Scheduling holds a competition every other year in search of the ...

Google’s Search tool has seen a number of improvements to its algorithm aimed at fighting specific issues over the years, and the newest tweaks, aimed at finding and shooting down fake news, come ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about fitness, health and wearable tech Algorithms have taken on an almost mythical significance in the modern world. They ...

Rather than a CEO-slamming sound bite free-for-all, Tuesday’s big tech hearing on algorithms aimed for more of a listening session vibe — and in that sense it mostly succeeded. The hearing centered on ...

Originally designed to drive revenue on social media platforms, recommendation algorithms are now making it easier to promote extreme content. Addressing this problem will require more than a ...

An AliveCor algorithm has identified people with high potassium levels from electrocardiogram (ECG) data. Limited prospective clinical testing suggests pairing the algorithm with AliveCor’s smartphone ...

The U.S. Air Force has started to use algorithms to predict when its aircraft will break, part of an effort to minimize the time and money they consume in the repair shop. The use of predictive ...

Algorithms are getting bad press lately, appearing in headlines with adjectives like dangerous, toxic and sinister. Algorithms are not new; the concept was described by the 9th century Persian ...