Rather than training an algorithm to spot personal health information (PHI) for de-identification in physician notes, new research focused on words and phrases that are not PHI, according to a study ...

Increasingly – and often by stealth as they work inside your innocent-looking search engine – algorithms have entered not just our computers and working lives. They also govern more and more ...

Humans are biased decision makers. One well-known and troubling example of this is the tendency for interviewers to hire candidates who remind them of themselves, resulting in workplace homogeneity.

Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Google is changing its news search algorithms again, in a move that’s sure to annoy everybody. Today’s ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. If you want to solve a tricky problem, it often helps to get organized. You might, for example, break the problem into pieces and tackle ...