How much has social media changed the way we talk and behave? That’s the question linguist and content creator Adam Aleksic sets out to answer in his debut book “Algospeak.” If you already know what ...

This book explains how simple algorithms can be applied to our everyday lives, helping to solve common decision-making problems.

A rare 175 year-old book containing the world's first computer algorithm by Ada Lovelace – mathematician and daughter of Lord Byron – has been sold at auction in England for £95,000 (US$125,000).

This New Algorithm for Sorting Books or Files Is Close to Perfection The library sorting problem is used across computer science for organizing far more than just books.

The library sorting problem is used across computer science for organizing far more than just books. A new solution is less than a page-width away from the theoretical ideal. Computer scientists often ...

The report, Recommended Reading: Amazon's algorithms, conspiracy theories and extremist literature, points out how the website's auto-complete search function can lead shoppers down "recommending ...

Three new books warn against turning into the person the algorithm thinks you are.

Though Chayka focuses on the effects algorithms have on culture, his book is perhaps most acute in its consideration of algorithms’ effects on individuals—namely, the way the internet is ...

Professor Pedro Domingos talked about his book [The Master Algorithm], in which he says technology is close to achieving the ultimate learning algorithm that is capable of discovering any ...

As a journalist, Kyle Chayka has closely followed online trends. His new book considers the time he spent detaching digitally for what he calls an “algorithm cleanse.” Zak Tebbal; Photo, via ...