What happens when two algorithms get into a deathmatch over book pricing? You get a book about fly developmental biology that will run you more than $23 million plus shipping of course. Michael Eisen, ...

Humans create and share vast amounts of data which can be used to manipulate every aspect of life—for good and not-so-good motives. Data and their associated algorithms can serve governments, ...

In this important book, Simons provides one of the best accounts of how advances in artificial intelligence challenge democracy and what societies can do about it. Machine learning is as profound as ...

Many engineers who work with machine-vision software might not care to know how algorithms process images to produce useful inspection data. Some engineers, though, like to know how these algorithms ...

Renee DiResta (@noUpside) is an Ideas contributor for WIRED, the director of research at New Knowledge, and a Mozilla fellow on media, misinformation, and trust. She is affiliated with the ...

Jodie Archer had always been puzzled by the success of The Da Vinci Code. She’d worked for Penguin UK in the mid-2000s, when Dan Brown’s thriller had become a massive hit, and knew there was no way ...

I am taking data structures and algorithm analysis right now, and I didn't really like the book. I think having an algorithm book around would be helpful though. Just wondering what you guys use for ...

Algorithms are all around us, governing everything from the recipes we use to cook dinner to the routes our navigational systems suggest we take to avoid traffic. But what exactly is an algorithm? In ...