A rare 175 year-old book containing the world's first computer algorithm by Ada Lovelace – mathematician and daughter of Lord Byron – has been sold at auction in England for £95,000 (US$125,000). Only ...

The trajectory of books about new technologies follows a similar pattern: first, hype; then, backlash; then, finally, a more considered view of what it might actually be good for. The first hype books ...

Excerpted from "The Master Algorithm: How the Quest for the Ultimate Learning Machine Will Remake Our World" Machine learning plays a part in every stage of your life. If you studied online for the ...

Many engineers who work with machine-vision software might not care to know how algorithms process images to produce useful inspection data. Some engineers, though, like to know how these algorithms ...

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YOU MIGHT not have heard of the algorithm that runs the world. Few people have, though it can determine much that goes on in our day-to-day lives: the food we have to eat, our schedule at work, ...