To a computer, part of our getting-dressed algorithm would look like “if it is below 50 degrees and it is raining, then pick the rain jacket and a long-sleeved shirt to wear underneath it.” ...

So the computer scientists developed a different type of algorithm that allowed users to more easily define what bad behavior they wanted their program to avoid. This, of course, makes the ...

Savvy algorithms are learning to drive our cars, to detect cancer faster and can already beat the world's best chess player. But there are concerns about whether or not the programmers building ...

Little wonder that most large firms use a computer program, or algorithm, when it comes to screening candidates seeking junior jobs.

Second, the program originally had the hospitals doing the proposing, giving their preferences a slight edge over students’. By 1997, the NRMP had updated the algorithm to address both these issues.

A teenage programmer tests a set of instructions she has written to get her computer to mop the floor. Suitable for teaching at KS3, KS4 and National 4 and 5.