Which is your favorite Machine Learning Algorithm? originally appeared on Quora: the knowledge sharing network where compelling questions are answered by people with unique insights. Answer by Carlos ...

I disagree with Nicola Dixon’s claim that “Experts had suspected a polynomial-time algorithm was possible” (17 August, p 9). The general feeling was that such an algorithm does not exist. “Heavy ...

Back in 1986 Hal Abelson, a professor of computer science and electrical engineering at MIT, stood in front of room of students and welcomed them to their first coding class. As he scrawled “COMPUTER ...

"Earlier today I made an off-hand quip on Twitter in response to Jer Thorp tweeting a link to 3D Voronoi code (incidentally written by the excellent Frederik Vanhoutte.) The following snowball chain ...

Computer scientists in India have cracked an age-old mathematical problem by designing a method for computers to quickly prove whether a figure is a prime number--a vital step in cryptography. RSA, a ...