Disinformation, algorithms, big data, care work, climate change, cultural knowledge: they can all be invisible. In her New York Times bestseller, Weapons of Math Destruction (2016), subtitled “how big ...

We live in the era of big data. The huge volume of information we generate daily has major applications in various fields of science and technology, economy and management. For example, more and more ...

The history of the social sciences has included a succession of advances in the ability to make observations and carefully test hypotheses. The compilation of massive data sets, for example, and the ...

The ISTA team’s interdisciplinary study combines expertise in information theory, mathematics, genomics, and software engineering. From left to right: Al Depope, Jakub Bajzik, Marco Mondelli, and ...

The changing use of the word algorithm reflects this enhanced visibility. In fact, the meaning of this word has changed ...

Modern agriculture has quietly become one of the most data-intensive industries on the planet. Fields dotted with soil sensors, drones overhead, automated irrigation lines, and networked greenhouses ...

Cosmonaut Nikolai Chub working on the Russian segment of the International Space Station during an April 2024 spacewalk. Credit: NASA MILAN – Spacewalks, often a highlight of space missions, are ...