Earlier this week, the Los Angeles area was shaken by an earthquake. However, it was a news article about the tremor that sent shockwaves across the journalism world. A shallow magnitude 4.7 ...

A teenage programmer explores the concept of writing algorithms by creating step-by-step instructions to teach her computer a dance routine. Suitable for teaching at KS3, KS4 and National 4 and 5.

Mashable’s series Algorithms explores the mysterious lines of code that increasingly control our lives — and our futures. “The Algorithm” is impenetrable. It’s mysterious, it’s all-knowing, it’s ...

An insight into the way machines make meaning. A few years ago I used an algorithm to help me write a science fiction story. Adam Hammond, an English professor, and Julian Brooke, a computer scientist ...

We use symbols and words that the computer understands to write our program. A symbol is a simple picture, like an arrow that shows us what to do. Will this algorithm help the girl get the cake?

Have a good mind for computational problem-solving? Fancy netting a cool $1 million for your efforts? Then the University of St. Andrews and the Clay Mathematics Institute sure have the competition ...

Parker designed the algorithm to follow (hopefully closely) the path that an expert would take in writing a summary about a data-rich subject.