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 new algorithm handles changes consisting of deleted edges -- for example, if the equivalent of a stretch of a road suddenly becomes inaccessible due to roadworks.

For visual recognition, for example, the team evaluated how many images an AI algorithm correctly categorized. Felten and his colleagues paired this estimation with data sets provided by the Bureau of ...

All mainstream credit card numbers obey a mathematical trick designed to catch the most common typos. It’s called the Luhn ...

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

Cryptographers want encryption schemes that are impossible for tomorrow’s quantum computers to crack. There’s only one catch: they might not exist.

The remaining 25% of the exam includes topics from elementary topology of R (the reals) and R^n, properties of continuous functions, differentiability and integrability, general topology, complex ...