A few years ago I used an algorithm to help me write a science fiction story. Adam Hammond, an English professor, and Julian Brooke, a computer scientist, had created a program called SciFiQ, and ...

Learn what an algorithm is with this KS1 primary computing guide from BBC Bitesize for years 1 and 2. We will define what an algorithm is and how they work.

A Web-based app promises to help you write like Hemingway. But does HemingwayApp, based on an algorithm that analyzes your words using Hemingway's rules on writing, offer a useful service or does ...

Parker designed the algorithm to follow (hopefully closely) the path that an expert would take in writing a summary about a data-rich subject.

The Greely High School graduate now works as a guidance navigation and control engineer at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory in Maryland, and he helped write an algorithm that allowed ...

Political speeches are often written for politicians by trusted aides and confidantes. Could an AI algorithm do as well?

Some web-based companies are trying to use academic studies of humor to write an algorithm for what is funny, and use it to sell an app. Humor, however, is notoriously tough to study.