Online algorithms are designed to make decisions sequentially, without complete knowledge of future inputs. In many real-world applications—from scheduling and resource allocation to network ...

Quantum computers—devices that process information using quantum mechanical effects—have long been expected to outperform ...

Despite our growing reliance on algorithms, the Pew Research Center found that Americans are concerned with the fairness and effectiveness of computer programs that make important decisions in their ...

University of Toronto provides funding as a founding partner of The Conversation CA. University of Toronto provides funding as a member of The Conversation CA-FR. But the debate is about whether these ...

Machine learning and deep learning have been widely embraced, and even more widely misunderstood. In this article, I’ll step back and explain both machine learning and deep learning in basic terms, ...

In four new studies, researchers found complicated results from experiments on Facebook’s and Instagram’s algorithms, suggesting there was no silver bullet to fixing the platforms. By Mike Isaac and ...