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 ...

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The Netflix co-founder said he wanted his alma mater to become a leader in studying the consequences, and guiding beneficial uses, of artificial intelligence. By Natasha Singer Natasha Singer covers ...

Metropolis Performing Arts Centre is celebrating its 25th season with two new individuals in key positions. Jeff Award-winning director, performer, and playwright Johanna McKenzie Miller is the ...

Three new books warn against turning into the person the algorithm thinks you are. Like a lot of Netflix subscribers, I find that my personal feed tends to be hit or miss. Usually more miss. The ...

Williams is Assistant Professor of Communication and Digital Studies at the University of Michigan, Senior Fellow in Trustworthy AI at the Mozilla Foundation, and Faculty Associate at Harvard ...

Companies, nonprofit organizations, and governments design algorithms to learn and predict user preferences. They embed these algorithms in recommendation systems that help consumers make choices ...

Abstract: We consider a robot-location assignment problem. The problem is confounded by a location network that restricts robots’ motion to neighboring locations. The problem can be optimally solved ...

ABSTRACT: In this work, we study some computational aspects for the Bayesian analysis involving stable distributions. It is well known that, in general, there is no closed form for the probability ...

Sam Esmail’s years-in-the making adaptation of Fritz Lang’s classic 1927 sci-fi film Metropolis became one of the first major casualties of the 2023 Hollywood strikes. Seven weeks into the WGA work ...