In the modern world, algorithms do much of the digital heavy lifting. Algorithms control the inner-workings of everything from particle accelerators to stock markets. They determine the news you see, ...

Overview: This introduction is designed to start off each of our modules, or a larger project that combines modules, by familiarizing students with ethics, algorithms, AI, and machine learning. These ...

My friend, Ed Zimmerman, wrote a terrific post for his Wall Street Journal blog, “Help Me Help You,” on soliciting him (and others like him) for investor introductions. I wanted to add to Ed’s post ...

Editor's Note: I just thought I should mention that there's an ongoing, ever-evolving, and dramatically different presentation of this topic entitled Rounding 101 on my personal website. We'll start ...

You’ve probably heard of Penguin, Panda and Hummingbird, and maybe even dropped those terms on unsuspecting friends at a party. But unless you’re a seasoned SEO professional, you’re likely not ...

The rise of quantum computing paints a significant challenge for the cryptography we rely on today. The modern encryption standards we currently use to safeguard sensitive data and communications, ...

Agar, Jon 2003 The Government Machine: A Revolutionary History of the Computer. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press. Ananny, Mike 2016 “Toward an Ethics of Algorithms ...