For fruits and veggies, there’s organic. For coffee and clothes, there’s fair trade. Now, algorithms have their own certification mark: a seal of approval that designates them as accurate ...

Sen. Edward Markey and Rep. Doris Matsui reintroduce the Algorithmic Justice and Online Platform Transparency Act in a bid to ban discriminatory algorithms.

Specialization: Data Science Foundations: Data Structures and Algorithms Instructor: Sriram Sankaranarayanan, Assistant Professor Prior knowledge needed: Mathematical Background: We expect that the ...

Companies, nonprofit organizations, and governments design algorithms to learn and predict user preferences. They embed these algorithms in recommendation systems that help consumers make choices ...

Apryl Williams describes dating app algorithms as a reinforcer of longstanding racial biases that privilege whiteness and deprioritize matching women of color. "If dating apps continue to follow the ...

More and more, human resources managers rely on data-driven algorithms to help with hiring decisions and to navigate a vast pool of potential job candidates. These software systems can in some ...

Research on Twitter's algorithm suggests swarming a bad tweet can backfire, but slamming a foolish or wrongheaded statement is a big part of online culture.

To tackle these issues, a team led by Zhiyi Yu of Sun Yat-sen University, China, recently developed a new hand gesture recognition algorithm that strikes a good balance between complexity ...

Complex algorithms affect everything from which jobs a gig worker is offered to how much they get paid for them. This week, gig workers are protesting the new pay structure.

Algorithms have evolved into to powerful engines of financial technology. But they don’t always live up to the hype, as algorithmic models fail to take account of basic societal concerns like ...