In California, an algorithm now determines who gets bail. Credit: Wikimedia Commons Last month, California passed a bill ending the use of cash bail. Instead of waiting in jail or putting down a cash ...

Artificial intelligence and machine learning systems are gaining a lot of ground in healthcare, with everyone from tech giants like Google and Amazon to startup companies building systems for ...

AI is everywhere, yet many feel anxious using it. This resistance stems from psychology, not just technology. Because ...

J. Nathan Matias is an assistant professor at the Department of Communication, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, USA, and a 2022–23 fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral ...

When Facebook acquired Instagram in 2012, many people were confused by the purchase. By all definitions, Instagram seemed to be the antithesis of Facebook. Instagram was small, had little prospect of ...

UC Santa Cruz will join three other institutions to establish a transdisciplinary research institute bringing together mathematicians, statisticians, and theoretical computer scientists to develop the ...

LaV's creators claim it's the first practical algorithm that can replace current-day encryption as the industry inches closer to creating a large-scale quantum computer. When you purchase through ...

Algorithms are the sets of steps necessary to complete computation. Algorithms are the sets of steps necessary to complete computation - they are at the heart of what our devices actually do. And this ...

Computer Science: Those with advanced degrees in computer science (CS), especially those who specialize at the Master's or Ph.D. levels in subjects like algorithms, computational theory, or artificial ...

Audrey G. Bennett receives funding from the NEH and NSF. Ron Eglash receives funding from the NSF. The model of democracy in the 1920s is sometimes called “the melting pot” – the dissolution of ...