Using Algorithms to make financial decisions Algorithms might sound like high-tech jargon reserved for computer scientists, but they’re really just a series of steps to solve a problem.

You might not have realized it, but The Simpsons is crammed with math. In this video, Simon Singh explains how Pi and algorithms crop up in the show—and why the characters work in a decimal ...

Algorithms are increasingly prevalent in everything we do, from getting insurance to applying to jobs (if the algorithm doesn't pick your application from a big pile, good luck). While it may seem ...

A practice known as predictive policing is an example of an algorithm with racist implications, O’Neil said. The algorithms involved in predictive policing look at locations of arrests, series of ...

The decision to leave her job as a tenure-track math professor at Barnard College and join hedge fund D.E. Shaw in 2007 seemed like a no-brainer. Cathy O’Neil would apply her math skills to the ...

Cathy O'Neil, a data scientist, had a message for the audience at the 2017 TED talks: "We need to demand accountability from our algorithmic overlords." ...

A North Carolina math professor said he and his students have been working on algorithms for March Madness basketball tournament brackets.

Equity is an elusive goal for algorithms for reasons that have more to do with mathematical impossibilities than backward ideologies.

After losing his faith in Marxism, academic Egon Balas discovered a genius for devising algorithms and solving business problems.