A computer program is an algorithm, written in a computer programming language, that a computer can understand and execute.

For example, a learning machine looks at a bunch of X-rays and the corresponding diagnoses and teaches itself how to distinguish tumors from the non-tumors. Or a robot vacuum cleaner gets stuck ...

Quantum computers promise enormous computational power, but the nature of quantum states makes computation and data ...

That, though, will be harder in the future—at least for sets of data that consist of integer numbers in a known range, as do, for example, the answers to many questionnaires in psychology ...

The use of algorithms to filter and present information online is increasingly shaping our everyday experience of the real world, a study argues.

In the paper that describes the algorithm, researchers say that the technology could one day be used to preserve the handwriting of people whose ability to write was damaged by a stroke or perhaps ...

Artificial intelligence has given us algorithms capable of recognizing faces, diagnosing disease, and of course, crushing computer games. But even the smartest algorithms can sometimes behave in ...

Quantum Walk Algorithms Quantum walks, sometimes called quantum random walks, are quantum analogues of (classical) random walks, which have proved to be a very powerful algorithmic tool in classical ...