In a new Oxford University Press book, Virgilio Almeida delves into the increasing presence of algorithms in everyday decisions, exploring their social and political impacts. "Algorithmic ...

This study develops an algorithmic framework for incorporating fairness constraints into sequential search problems where inspecting each candidate is costly. The framework generalizes classical ...

The most widely used technique for finding the largest or smallest values of a math function turns out to be a fundamentally difficult computational problem. Many aspects of modern applied research ...

Algorithms have taken on an almost mythical significance in the modern world. They determine what you see on social media and when browsing online, help form people’s belief systems, and impact the ...

Too often, we see the deluge of content streaming through our tech platforms as a wave washing over us. But the reality is that this is a “wave” we are choosing to ride. It’s useful to think of our ...

Three new books warn against turning into the person the algorithm thinks you are. Like a lot of Netflix subscribers, I find that my personal feed tends to be hit or miss. Usually more miss. The ...