UVA researcher Sophie Bell and professor Eric Turkheimer have identified biological markers of aging that can predict ...

“Data-Driven Thinking” is written by members of the media community and contains fresh ideas on the digital revolution in media. Today’s column is written by Jeremy Stanley, chief data scientist at ...

Ideally, predictive algorithms are stone-cold, rational, big data-crunching tools that can assist humans in their flawed decision-making process, but the caveat is that they can often reflect the ...

Business managers often rely on predictive algorithms to make recruiting decisions that affect a company’s bottom line. But these kinds of algorithms aren’t really “predictive” at all.

Recidivism is the likelihood of a person convicted of a crime to offend again. Currently, this rate is determined by predictive algorithms. The outcome can affect everything from sentencing ...

AI research conducted through a gendered lens helps us to imagine how these advanced technologies can be used to achieve a seemingly impossible feat - eliminating bias.

Corrosion may be a centuries-old enemy of infrastructure, but the fight against it is entering a new era — one powered by ...

A few weeks ago a story broke revealing that the New Orleans Police Department had been using a predictive policing tool supplied by CIA-backed data mining company, Palantir, to identify gang ...