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Cracking a long-standing weakness in a classic algorithm for programming reconfigurable chips

Researchers from EPFL, AMD, and the University of Novi Sad have uncovered a long-standing inefficiency in the algorithm that ...
Business Wire

Dandelion Health Launches Public Service Program to Evaluate Performance and Bias of Healthcare Algorithms Using Most Comprehensive Datasets Available

NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dandelion Health, Inc., a startup offering a healthcare data platform that specializes in artificial intelligence and precision analytics, announced today the launch of a ...
The New York Times

Here’s a homemade version of the Codebreaker algorithm — and how to break it

You, too, can be a state-of-the-art sign-stealer. You can play along at home and download The Athletic’s homemade version of the sign-cracking algorithm, while we ...
Medscape

'Spike' Detection Program Promising to Diagnose Epilepsy on EEG

A new automated computer algorithm for the diagnosis of epilepsy from electroencephalogram (EEG) readings ― developed by analyzing multiple expert opinions on thousands of such readings ― has shown ...

AI will soon have a say in approving or denying Medicare treatments

The move has raised eyebrows among politicians and policy experts. Traditional Medicare has mostly eschewed prior ...
University of California

Racial bias found in widely used health care prediction algorithm

From predicting who will be a repeat offender to who’s the best candidate for a job, computer algorithms are now making complex decisions in lieu of humans. But increasingly, many of these algorithms ...
GovCon Wire

DARPA Looks to Algorithms, Sensors, Virtual Tech for Airspace Awareness, De-Confliction Program

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency is soliciting proposals on a series of algorithms, a virtual laboratory testbed and a senor network through a program aimed at coordinating airspace ...

The Humble Origins Of TikTok’s Almighty Algorithm

An exclusive excerpt from Every Screen On The Planet reveals how the social media app’s powerful recommendation engine was ...
Nature

Perinatal transfer of genetic information: developing an algorithm for reporting cystic fibrosis prenatal test results to the newborn screening program

Purpose: This study explored the feasibility of statewide reporting of cystic fibrosis fetal diagnostic testing results to the newborn screening program through the birth hospital. Methods: We ...
Yahoo Finance

Entrust nShield HSMs Post-Quantum Cryptography Algorithms Achieve Validation from the NIST Cryptographic Algorithm Validation Program

The Entrust nShield HSM implementation of three NIST standardized post-quantum algorithms have been validated by NIST’s Cryptographic Algorithm Validation Program (CAVP). The latest firmware (v13.8.0) ...
Los Angeles Times

When computers make biased health decisions, black patients pay the price, study says

People may be biased, even without realizing it, but computer programs shouldn’t have any reason to discriminate against black patients when predicting their healthcare needs. Right? Wrong, new ...
Inside Higher Ed

The Death and Life of an Admissions Algorithm

In 2013, the University of Texas at Austin’s computer science department began using a machine-learning system called GRADE to help make decisions about who gets into its Ph.D. program -- and who ...