Explore how algorithms transform trading with strategies like arbitrage and HFT, and their impact on global markets, ...

Overview: Algorithm selection is an engineering decision: the wrong choice can freeze a system at scale, regardless of ...

Discover how securities exchanges use matching orders to pair buy and sell orders, explore trading algorithms like FIFO and ...

Algorithms have taken a lot of heat recently for producing biased decisions. For example, people were outraged over an Amazon.com recruiting algorithm that overlooked female applicants. Should we be ...

When we go online these days, we know we’re not alone: The internet is looking back at us. Our clicks give us the information and products we ask for, but at the same time they provide information ...

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If you're seeing the same types of stories repeatedly on your social media feeds, you're not alone, and it's due to something called an "algorithm.""It's a series of steps that a computer follows in ...

ALAN MISLOVE studies algorithms. Recently, his research at Northeastern University, in Boston, has shown that Facebook’s software was leaking users’ phone numbers to advertisers. He has also found new ...

What if tech companies had to release data about how algorithms work and software engineers had to take social science courses in college? Dean Eckles (upper left), a professor at the MIT Sloan School ...