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 ...

Algorithms are a staple of modern life. People rely on algorithmic recommendations to wade through deep catalogs and find the best movies, routes, information, products, people and investments.

Maintaining the proper level of performance is the key to integrating speech algorithms. Designing and developing an embedded system from scratch and making it stable is always a challenge.

An enormously high number of algorithms are in use today in various electronic systems. Integrating and evaluating a DSP algorithm with the system is tricky enough to bring programmers to their knees.

Algorithms in clinical decision tools have been making it harder for certain racial and socioeconomic groups to receive the healthcare they deserve.

On April 5, 2011, 41-year-old John Gass received a letter from the Massachusetts Registry of Motor Vehicles. The letter informed Gass that his driver’s license had been revoked and that he should stop ...

If you're trying out for a job in sales, the person who judges your pitch may not be a person — it could be a computer. Job recruitment is the newest frontier in automated labor, where algorithms are ...

That question in the headline was the challenge posed by a group of open knowledge junkies in Germany who wanted to understand how a person’s Schufa was calculated. Schufa is a credit bureau that ...