Before Computer Science Became a Boys’ Club, Margaret Hamilton Wrote the Code

The woman who helped put astronauts on the moon was a software engineer when the field was not prestigious or lucrative.

With most information hidden, the game Stratego had stumped AI—until now

Deep Blue took down Garry Kasparov at chess in 1997, AlphaGo beat Lee Sedol at Go in 2016, and poker bots have been beating ...
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The algorithms of thought

How do humans make remarkable decisions with limited data and computing power—and what can that efficiency teach us about AI?

From equations to Instagram feeds: how ‘algorithm’ changed its meaning

The changing use of the word algorithm reflects this enhanced visibility. In fact, the meaning of this word has changed ...
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Computer Scientist Pushes a 1996 Algorithm Beyond Its Longstanding Limit

A multiscale sampling strategy pushes a classic network-distance guarantee into territory previous algorithms struggled to reach. Credit: Shutterstock A new algorithm solves a blind spot that has ...