WASHINGTON – Lawmakers have struggled to tamp down online misinformation and extremism. The latest effort, from Sens. Mark ...

I was halfway through a master’s in Computer Science when my vision changed. I was working as a data scientist during my summer off from school, and I had friends who said things like “I’m at a local ...

Late last year, the Justice Department joined the growing list of agencies to discover that algorithms don’t heed good intentions. An algorithm known as PATTERN placed tens of thousands of federal ...

Jack Conte, the chief executive of Patreon, a platform for creators to monetize their art and content, outlines his vision ...

From the physical world to the virtual world, algorithms are seemingly everywhere. David J. Malan, Professor of Computer Science at Harvard University, has been challenged to explain the science of ...

Two years ago, the real-estate company Zillow began a program to buy and sell homes. The idea of the program, Zillow Offers, was to use the company’s large amount of historical real-estate data to ...

The world of matchmaking won't have to rely on luck, as much as math, thanks to one very accomplished teenager. Yunseo Choi, a senior at Phillips Exeter Academy in New Hampshire, came up with a ...

When someone walks into an emergency room with symptoms of a stroke, every second matters. But today, diagnosing the type of ...