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The Age of the Algorithm
by Senior Principal Design Technologist Jared Ficklin

We live in the App Age and are entering new territory. The sexy math behind voice or facial recognition, real time translation, or even just assembly of a playlist of music, is no longer the realm of super computers or even desktops. Smart phones will run algorithms, and the data to feed them will also be more fluidly available. Forget Global Warming models: Consumers will pay good money for an algorithm that gathers data and solves everyday problems.