Robo-Debt: How innocent is an algorithm?
By Humphrey McQueen Writing in 1977, the ‘father’ of algorithmic analysis, Stanford Professor and recipient of the 1974 Turing Award, Donald E. Knuth, observed that [t]en years ago, the word ‘algorithm’ was unknown to most educated peoples; indeed, it was scarcely necessary. The rapid rise of computer science, which has the study of algorithms as its focal point, has changed …
