Cryptographic algorithms are the backbone of secure data and communication. When deployed correctly, public-key algorithms have generally helped safeguard data against attacks. However, industry ...

Researchers from University of Texas-Austin and Copenhagen Business School published a new paper in the Journal of Marketing that offers actionable guidance to managers on the deployment of algorithms ...

Personalized algorithms may quietly sabotage how people learn, nudging them into narrow tunnels of information even when they start with zero prior knowledge. In the study, participants using ...

Many ethical questions need to be answered before facial recognition technologies can be used as part of criminal investigations, as Donna Lu rightly points out (7 September, p 14). She notes that ...

In a paper released last September by the Brookings Institution, author Alex Engler suggests that the use of algorithms to determine the amount of scholarship (i.e., discount) support students should ...

Artificial intelligence has moved into the commercial mainstream thanks to the growing prowess of machine learning algorithms that enable computers to train themselves to do things like drive cars, ...

TikTok's algorithm is going to be tweaked soon via additional customization features to the users' "For You" feed, in order to get rid of potentially negative content. A photo taken on December 14, ...

Here's an intriguing precedent: Google has introduced a new feature into its ranking algorithm - which determines the prominence of a website in Google search results - to account for online merchants ...