Determining the least expensive path for a new subway line underneath a metropolis like New York City is a colossal planning challenge—involving thousands of potential routes through hundreds of city ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. If you want to solve a tricky problem, it often helps to get organized. You might, for example, break the problem into pieces and tackle ...

Are we shaping our feeds or are they shaping us — and is this healthy? Faculty weigh in recommendation algorithms.

Artificial intelligence is built on the foundation of machine learning (ML) models. These models are software programs designed to classify data, identify data patterns, spot anomalies in data sets, ...

Algorithms have taken on an almost mythical significance in the modern world. They determine what you see on social media and when browsing online, help form people’s belief systems, and impact the ...

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Taking race into account when developing tools to predict a patient's risk of colorectal cancer leads to more accurate predictions when compared with race-blind algorithms, researchers find. While ...