algorithms

BBC Radio 4 looks at algorithms in our everyday lives and why we should care what goes on in the black box. Algorithms are the powerful mathematical tools which shape…

The Traveling Salesman Problem is a popular puzzle that asks for the shortest route between a set of points such that you visit each point once and end up back…

Students want to get into a school, and schools want certain students. Match. Med students want to get into a specific residency program, and certain programs want specific students. Match.…

If you logged into Facebook the past couple of weeks, you saw your friends’ automatically generated year-end reviews. Estimated events and popular pictures appear in chronological order. Facebook eventually pinned…

Mike Bostock, who you might recognize from such things as Data-Driven Documents or the New York Times, writes on the value of visualizing algorithms for entertaining, teaching, learning, and debugging.…

Kevin Slavin, chairman and co-founder of Area/Code, describes how algorithms (processing tons and tons of data) are intertwined with our day-to-day and how they will change our future. And the…