Algorithms have taken on an almost mythical significance in the modern world. They determine what you see on social media and when browsing online, help form people’s belief systems, and impact the ...

Online algorithms are central to solving resource allocation and matching challenges in dynamic environments where decisions must be made without complete knowledge of future events. Research in this ...

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Have we tried everything to tackle the climate crisis? At least one simple idea has hardly been explored: prioritizing climate content on social media. Take YouTube, where hundreds of millions of ...

In life, we sometimes have to make decisions without all the information we want; that’s true in computer science, too. This is the realm of online algorithms — which, despite their name, don’t ...

In applications like routing, job scheduling, caching, etc., requests arrive sequentially, and the goal of the system is to handle requests as they arrive, while optimizing an appropriate overall ...

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People’s daily interactions with online algorithms affect how they learn from others, with negative consequences including social misperceptions, conflict and the spread of misinformation, my ...

People’s daily interactions with online algorithms affect how they learn from others, with negative consequences including social misperceptions, conflict, and the spread of misinformation, my ...

Billionaire investor and television personality Mark Cuban on Monday argued social media algorithms will play a large role in the 2024 election, calling those who control the algorithms “the most ...

Optical microscopy methods such as calcium and voltage imaging enable fast activity readout of large neuronal populations using light. However, the lack of corresponding advances in online algorithms ...

The following essay is reprinted with permission from The Conversation, an online publication covering the latest research. People’s daily interactions with online algorithms affect how they learn ...