“How tall is President Obama?” Through algorithm updates like “ Hummingbird,” Google has evolved to recognize such questions and, increasingly, to answer them itself.

Wolfram Alpha is a system for computing the answers to questions. To accomplish this it uses built-in models of fields of knowledge, complete with data and algorithms, that represent real-world ...

Humans can't compete with computer algorithms for short-term trades, but still have an edge over the medium to long term.

Chris Piech, professor of computer science at Stanford University, answers the internet's burning questions about coding. Do you need to know math to be good at coding? How many computer languages ...

The use of algorithms to filter and present information online is increasingly shaping our everyday experience of the real world, a study argues.

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