The Conversation

Moral metrics: Are corporate algorithms becoming our new moral authorities?

You check your credit score before applying for an apartment. Your fitness watch tells you whether you slept well enough. A workplace dashboard measures your productivity. Parents can buy devices that ...
The New York Times

The Life-Changing Power of a Book Review Before Algorithms

How The Washington Post’s now-defunct Book World transformed the careers of two giants of American literature. Credit...Tom Etherington Supported by By David Streitfeld David Streitfeld, a reporter ...
STAT

This series, a Pulitzer Prize finalist for investigative reporting, highlights the dangers of AI use in medicine

Casey Ross and Bob Herman’s reporting exposes how UnitedHealth Group used an unregulated algorithm to override clinicians’ judgment and deny care to seriously ill older and disabled patients. The ...
Nature

Genome assembly algorithms articles from across Nature Portfolio

We constructed a super pangenome for the tomato, incorporating 20 newly assembled telomere-to-telomere (T2T) genomes and 27 previously published genomes. This comprehensive, genus-wide resource ...
The Daily Telegraph

Sir Tony Hoare, software designer who developed Quicksort, the industry standard for sorting lists

Returning to England in 1960, he joined the computer firm Elliott Brothers, where one of his first tasks was to write an algorithm for a sorting method known as a “shell sort”. The story goes that he ...