Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about fitness, health and wearable tech Algorithms have taken on an almost mythical significance in the modern world. They ...

One fact about machine learning and data algorithms that may surprise business users is that there aren’t actually that many of them. This topic can get overwhelming for busy professionals. But in ...

Over the last 10 years, breakthroughs in understanding the genetic instructions passed from parent to offspring have put researchers closer than ever before to efficiently decoding DNA with 100% ...

Artificial intelligence and machine learning systems are gaining a lot of ground in healthcare, with everyone from tech giants like Google and Amazon to startup companies building systems for ...

A computational chemist at Washington State University has adapted Google's seminal search algorithm, PageRank, so that instead of mapping trillions of web pages it maps out the shapes and chemical ...

One of the longest standing tenets of computing is that it’s always better to bring the code to the data than the other way around. In recognition of that fundamental principle, IBM today announced ...

Scientists say they’ve developed a framework to make computer algorithms “safer” to use without creating bias based on race, gender or other factors. The trick, they say, is to make it possible for ...

Gloomy predictions abound that the applications of artificial intelligence and machine learning will put huge numbers of people out of work in the coming years. But the corollary is that these ...