Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about the broad intersection of data and society. As livestreams of the Notre Dame fire proliferated yesterday, a new wave ...

ITHACA, N.Y. – In January 2017, Reddit users read about an alleged case of terrorism in a Spanish supermarket. What they didn’t know was that nearly every detail of the stories, taken from several ...

In recent years numerous advances in EM methodology have led to algorithms which can be very efficient when compared with both their EM predecessors and other numerical methods (e.g., algorithms based ...

Nonbinary low-density parity-check (NB-LDPC) codes have emerged as a powerful tool in error correction, offering significant performance improvements over traditional ...

Efficient Learning Algorithms for the Best Capped Base-Stock Policy in Lost Sales Inventory Systems Periodic review, lost sales inventory systems with lead times are notoriously challenging to ...