For would-be quantum programmers scratching their heads over how to jump into the game as quantum computers proliferate and become publicly accessible, a new beginner's guide provides a thorough ...

Sixty years ago, on May 1, 1964, at 4 am in the morning, a quiet revolution in computing began at Dartmouth College. That’s when mathematicians John G. Kemeny and Thomas E. Kurtz successfully ran the ...

How should we measure the accuracy of predictions? If the weather forecast calls for a 10% chance of rain, and it rains, was that a bad forecast? How would you explain what a "good forecast" is to a ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about the broad intersection of data and society. As livestreams of the Notre Dame fire proliferated yesterday, a new wave ...

Researchers have shrunk state-of-the-art computer vision models to run on low-power devices. Growing pains: Visual recognition is deep learning’s strongest skill. Computer vision algorithms are ...

Scientists say they’ve developed a framework to make computer algorithms “safer” to use without creating bias based on race, gender or other factors. The trick, they say, is to make it possible for ...