The past few weeks have generated tremendous news about the juncture of algorithmic technologies and elections. When the New York Times and the Guardian revealed that the data-analytics firm Cambridge ...

There is no doubt that so-called "big data" and artificial intelligence can increase efficiency and productivity in the workplace enormously, but mathematical modelling used in various contexts ...

Over the last several years, Facebook has been participating—unintentionally—in the erosion of democracy. The social network may feel like a modern town square, but thanks to its tangle of algorithms, ...

Yesterday, I wrote how Is Ask.com's "The Algorithm" Campaign Really Working? I then submitting it to Digg, and it later became "popular". My goal was to see if Digg users were also confused by the ...

Montreal, QC – A bilingual awareness campaign to teach young people about algorithms is being launched by Kids Code Jeunesse (KCJ) and the Canadian Commission for UNESCO (CCUNESCO), with support from ...