A rare 175 year-old book containing the world's first computer algorithm by Ada Lovelace – mathematician and daughter of Lord Byron – has been sold at auction in England for £95,000 (US$125,000). Only ...

The way that books are selected for publication has remained basically the same for years: editors read over a manuscript and decide if they think it has potential and is a good fit. But that could be ...

Dr. Victor Frankenstein thought it would be a good idea to bring an inanimate body to life. We all know how that turned out. Now, Robert Harris — best-selling author of novels about Nazi Germany ...

Google is famous for the brilliance of its algorithm for searching web pages. While the company looks at dozens of factors in determining which results to display, the heart of the search engine is ...

A group of Israeli researchers has built a computer algorithm to decode one of the most important books in Western culture: the Bible. The results accord generally with the consensus of scholars that ...