Using a sequence of steps to solve a problem. Scientific applications, forecasting, decision making, quantum computing and AI use algorithms routinely. Computer programming is used to implement the ...

Few of us remember enough math to be able to precisely define "algorithm" -- but it has become increasingly clear that these little "sets of rules that precisely define a sequence of operations" will ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Growing up in the science fiction-infused 1960s and ’70s, nothing excited me more than computers’ potential to ...