“Can an algorithm tell when children are in danger?” asks a headline in the March 12 edition of The Morning Call. The answer is no. Predictive analytics, the latest fad in child welfare, doesn’t ...

In algorithms, as in life, negativity can be a drag. Consider the problem of finding the shortest path between two points on a graph — a network of nodes connected by links, or edges. Often, these ...

Autonomous devices, including drones, robots and self-driving cars, rely on sensors to gauge their position and actions. However, hackers can use ultrasound waves to disable these sensors or feed them ...

Peter Shor didn’t set out to break the internet. But an algorithm he developed in the mid-1990s threatened to do just that. In a landmark paper, Shor showed how a hypothetical computer that exploited ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about fitness, health and wearable tech Algorithms have taken on an almost mythical significance in the modern world. They ...