San Antonio Express News on MSN

Pilot Medicare program gives AI a say in approving or denying treatment

Trump administration program, launching Jan. 1, will affect patients and their doctors in Texas and five other states.
Business Wire

Dandelion Health Launches Public Service Program to Evaluate Performance and Bias of Healthcare Algorithms Using Most Comprehensive Datasets Available

NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dandelion Health, Inc., a startup offering a healthcare data platform that specializes in artificial intelligence and precision analytics, announced today the launch of a ...
Tech Xplore on MSN

Cracking a long-standing weakness in a classic algorithm for programming reconfigurable chips

Researchers from EPFL, AMD, and the University of Novi Sad have uncovered a long-standing inefficiency in the algorithm that ...
Wildfire Today

California’s new Wildfire Catastrophe Model will challenge insurance companies’ ‘secretive algorithms’

California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a first-in-the-nation law into effect on Friday, which lawmakers say will push back on ...
The University of Chicago Chronicle

Health care prediction algorithm biased against black patients, study finds

From predicting who will be a repeat offender to who’s the best candidate for a job, computer algorithms are now making complex decisions in lieu of humans. But increasingly, many of these algorithms ...
The New York Times

Here’s a homemade version of the Codebreaker algorithm — and how to break it

You, too, can be a state-of-the-art sign-stealer. You can play along at home and download The Athletic’s homemade version of the sign-cracking algorithm, while we ...
Los Angeles Times

When computers make biased health decisions, black patients pay the price, study says

People may be biased, even without realizing it, but computer programs shouldn’t have any reason to discriminate against black patients when predicting their healthcare needs. Right? Wrong, new ...

Algorithm reveals 'magic sizes' for assembling programmable icosahedral shells at minimal cost

Over the past decade, experts in the field of nanotechnology and materials science have been trying to devise architectures ...
Inside Higher Ed

The Death and Life of an Admissions Algorithm

In 2013, the University of Texas at Austin’s computer science department began using a machine-learning system called GRADE to help make decisions about who gets into its Ph.D. program -- and who ...