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

The Board of Patent Appeals and Interferences has issued a new test for whether a machine using a mathematical algorithm (read as computer-driven device) is patentable. Latest. U.S.

New Mathematical Algorithms Might Help Diagnose Cancer Date: February 13, 2004 Source: Dartmouth College Summary: Dartmouth researchers have developed an algorithm that might someday be used to ...

Mathematicians have long sought to develop algorithms that can compare any two graphs. In practice, many ...

Of course, all computer programs implement mathematical algorithms that could, in principle, be implemented with a pencil and paper. ... The math involved is little more than basic geometry.

In fact, the new algorithm is so effective that researchers say it “can solve a case with a 7,500-person family tree around 94 percent of the time,” compared to only 4 percent of the time with ...

Mathematical algorithms power the products made by Nervous System, a studio in Massachusetts that was founded in 2007 by Jessica Rosenkrantz, a biologist and architect, ...

A federal judge has thrown out a patent claim against Rackspace, ruling that mathematical algorithms can't be patented. The ruling in the Eastern Disrict stemmed from a 2012 complaint filed by ...