To the horror of readers everywhere, computer scientists have developed an algorithm they say can predict the commercial viability of a book, with an 84 percent success rate, based solely on the style ...

Three books explore the promise and peril of artificial intelligence. A metronome ticks. A record spins. And as a feel-good pop track plays, a giant compactor slowly crushes a Jenga tower of material ...

The way that books are selected for publication has remained basically the same for years: editors read over a manuscript and decide if they think it has potential and is a good fit. But that could be ...

Many engineers who work with machine-vision software might not care to know how algorithms process images to produce useful inspection data. Some engineers, though, like to know how these algorithms ...

John Rasmussen of Lakewood browses the stacks at the Denver Central Library on Thursday, May 25, 2017. Algorithms determine so much of our life. The movies we watch. The social media posts we see. The ...