“To me, an algorithm is any piece of automated code that accepts some number of variables and data, [then] uses those variables and data to make decisions. But that’s the boring computer science ...

A formula used to turn ordinary data, or "plaintext," into a secret coded message known as "ciphertext." The ciphertext can reside in storage or travel over unsecure networks without its contents ...

Unable to take their exams during 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic and with schools shut back in March, students received their grades for an exam-free year last week for Scottish Qualifications ...

The formula Google uses to rank the resulting Web pages from a user's query. Along with the PageRank system that was Google's major contribution to evaluating website importance due to popularity, ...

Data structures and algorithms are vital elements in many computing applications. When programmers design and build applications, they need to model the application data. What this data consists of ...

The study covered in this summary was published in medRxiv.org as a preprint and has not yet been peer reviewed. HR-based sleep staging provides a feasible solution for sleep assessment that can be ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Researchers evaluated four increasingly stringent eGFR-based algorithms for patients with CKD. The results could ...

Time is money and, unfortunately for companies, hiring new employees takes significant time - more than a month on average, research shows. Hiring decisions are also rife with human bias, leading some ...

In the age of Facebook and Netflix, the word “algorithm” has become so ubiquitous, and its connotation so amorphous, that it’s verging on jargon—maybe even cliché. The Atlantic’s Ian Bogost has ...

THE Central Coast’s social media influencers know what they are worth and refuse to be defined by an algorithm that takes a blinkered view of their online presence. That was the response to a recent ...