Pseudocode can be used to plan out programs. Planning a program that asks people what the best subject they take is, would look like this in pseudocode: REPEAT OUTPUT 'What is the best subject you ...

For better accountability, we should shift the focus from the design of these systems to their impact. Describing a decision-making system as an “algorithm” is often a way to deflect accountability ...

Across the United States and Europe, software is making probation decisions and predicting whether teens will commit crime. Opponents want more human oversight. Darnell Gates, on probation in ...

Instagram users were missing 70 percent of all posts and 50 percent of their friends’ posts before the app ditched the reverse chronological feed for an algorithm in July 2016. Despite backlash about ...

In many ancient cultures people believed that everything had a spirit. Each human, animal, plant, and even each rock and bolt of lightning were understood as we understand ourselves. If we eat because ...