Ahead of Valentine’s Day, over 5,000 Cornellians eagerly registered for Perfect Match in hopes of finding love. Every year, the matchmaking system uses a comprehensive algorithm developed by students.

What just happened? Researchers have developed an algorithm that allows robots to autonomously identify weaknesses in their skills and then systematically practice to improve them. It's akin to giving ...

One key buzzword these days is “algorithm,” which technically means any computational formula but which has come to mean a formula that predicts our behavior. Amazon and Netflix have algorithms that ...