Brokers and vendors are seemingly offering clients more algorithmic products than Kellogg's has cornflakes. An exaggeration? Of course, but you get the idea. The buyside, however, might just feel that ...

Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute (SBP) has undertaken the first-ever comparative analysis of a newly emerging category of algorithms that mine genetic information in cancer databases ...

When scientists test algorithms that sort or classify data, they often turn to a trusted tool called Normalized Mutual Information (or NMI) to measure how well an algorithm's output matches reality.