Marc Andreessen wrote in 2011 that "software is eating the world." If this is true, then algorithms are doing much of the digesting. Big data of 21st century exabyte scale is useless without ...

Based on complex numerical algorithms programs are used in many areas of life. They track changes in stock prices of companies on the largest stock exchanges, solve complex logistic problems while ...

Discover how the Luhn Algorithm verifies credit card accuracy, supports secure transactions, and helps prevent errors in inputting Social Security numbers.

Score-keeping fosters creativity in games, but in real-life institutions it makes for rigid policies and distorts values, according to this trenchant philosophical Continue reading » World Enemy No. 1 ...