Here's what algorithms do behind the scenes and why they're important. Okay, what's an algorithm? A computer algorithm is a set of instructions that tell computers how to handle and interpret data.

The AI field is working toward developing algorithms that humans can better understand. But for now, we're still in the dark.

One computer scientist’s “stunning” proof is the first progress in 50 years on one of the most famous questions in computer science.

Social media algorithms are constantly at work, shaping what you see and what you miss. But how exactly do they decide? It turns out, every click, like, and comment teaches the algorithm more ...

Climate models can be a million lines of code long and can take months to run on supercomputers. A new algorithm has dramatically shortened that time.

Computer scientists have written a network flow algorithm that computes almost as fast as is mathematically possible. This algorithm computes the maximum traffic flow with minimum transport costs ...

Pat Bennett, center front, has sensor implants that allow a computer algorithm to create words based on her brain activity. Steve Fisch/Stanford Medicine ...

Researchers have demonstrated a quantum speedup over the most efficient classical computer algorithm possible for what is believed to be the first time. The accomplishment was performed on an IBM ...