Companies, nonprofit organizations, and governments design algorithms to learn and predict user preferences. They embed these algorithms in recommendation systems that help consumers make choices ...

The cult of the founder tells us that great companies start when lone geniuses sweat through the night turning the world's next great idea into code. But what if you could still start a company while ...

Researchers from North Carolina State University have developed an algorithm that could give pig farms advance notice of porcine epidemic diarrhea virus (PEDV) outbreaks. The proof-of-concept ...

A team of physicists has just created an algorithm that studies the behavior of pro-ISIS online groups and predicts their future actions, including when they may become real-world threats. The team ...

A North Carolina State University physicist and his German colleagues have created a new, more precise algorithm for simulating particle interactions when a single impurity is introduced into a Fermi ...

As the season of music lists, rankings, recaps, and debates unfolds, University of Southern California student Anshay Saboo took the annual activity a step further with her application named Instafest ...

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