A quantum computer is a machine designed to use quantum mechanics to do things which cannot be done by any machine based only on the laws of classical physics. Eventual applications of quantum ...

Jory Denny is a member of two professional societies: the Association of Computing Machinery and IEEE. He is associated with Waymo LLC. The world of computing is full of buzzwords: AI, supercomputers, ...

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, unbiased, ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about fitness, health and wearable tech Algorithms have taken on an almost mythical significance in the modern world. They ...

The next step is sending that list onto an order processing algorithm that goes out and buys or sells the stocks that have been selected. The code may seem hard to follow, but it’s one of the oldest ...

Cathy O’Neil believes there is a dark side to numbers. A mathematician by training, she earned her doctorate at Harvard and went on to become a tenure-track professor at Barnard College. In 2007, ...

"I believe that we can make a better future if we choose it, and in order to choose it we have to understand two things," Tim O'Reilly told ZDNet last Tuesday. "We have to understand that there's a ...

Cathy O’Neil, author of “Weapons of Math Destruction” on how data can lead us astray–from HR to Wall Street. Cathy O’Neil, author of Weapons of Math Destruction on how data can lead us astray—from HR ...

The content recommendation algorithm that powers the online short video platform TikTok has once again come under the ...