How can social media impact your views? A media literacy lesson

This complete 40-minute downloadable lesson is designed to give KS3 and KS4 students a deeper understanding of social media ...
Wired

Tainted Data Can Teach Algorithms the Wrong Lessons

An important leap for artificial intelligence in recent years is machines’ ability to teach themselves, through endless practice, to solve problems, from mastering ancient board games to navigating ...
Slate

The Kidney Transplant Algorithm’s Surprising Lessons for Ethical A.I.

This article is adapted from Voices in the Code: A Story About People, Their Values, and the Algorithm They Made, out Sept. 8 from Russell Sage Foundation Press. In May 2021, I got a call I never ...
EurekAlert!

Lessons from the fly brain improve search algorithms

To develop better search algorithms for images and data, a group of researchers has turned to the fruit fly brain. In particular, the researchers were inspired by the way in which fruit flies classify ...
AFCEA

Lesson From Ukraine: Algorithms Cannot Replace Mission-Driven Humans

As innovation progresses, no machine or algorithm will replace mission-enabled and free-thinking individuals, said Director of NATO Digital Staff Rear Adm. Nick Wheeler. The director, who is set to ...
Diginomica

The UK A-Level ‘COVID-19 algorithm fiasco’ and lessons for the enterprise

There were always going to be mistakes made by governments in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Such a wide-ranging Herculean effort was needed across so many parts of the country, it is unimaginable ...
InfoWorld

Data structures and algorithms in Java, Part 1: Overview

Java programmers use data structures to store and organize data, and we use algorithms to manipulate the data in those structures. The more you understand about data structures and algorithms, and how ...