They took this as evidence that their quest for a precise definition of "algorithm" or "algorithmically computable function" had been successful.
In Wolfram's turn of phrase, Life is algorithmically irreducible: no algorithmic shortcut is available to anticipate the outcome of the system given its initial input.
Though traffic data makes it possible to see the movement of traffic in real time, and traffic lights themselves are operated algorithmically, it is still not possible to engineer a way of turning the lights green as you pull up.
"Buy and sell decisions," it runs, "will, in many cases, be made and executed algorithmically according to quantitative trading strategies embodied in analytical computer software running [the manager's] computer facilities".
Mr Noonan says that SPSS's "secret sauce" lies in its ability to deal with missing or unreliable data, rather than the algorithms themselves.Above all, human judgment still has a role a point perhaps reinforced by the recent performance of algorithmically driven quantitative funds in the financial markets.
Thus, if one had an idea of where to look for the sought-after object in the British Museum, a great deal of time could be saved by searching heuristically rather than algorithmically.
She claimed that the popular search engine's "auto-complete" function had contributed to the perpetuation of the rumours, while Google responded that such results were algorithmically produced in accordance with user behaviour.
D'Aloisio took to the stage with Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer to announce the new app, saying that the stories would be " algorithmically produced, but editorially curated," and describing the result as the "perfect blend of technology and journalism".
Instead of the stuff one thinks of as luxury — personal service, exclusivity, sumptuous scented surroundings — there was highly automated, algorithmically ordered chaos.
In Cairo, where Steavenson is based, the uprising that brought down Hosni Mubarak brought Egyptians together, but that unity has broken down with a few weeks to go before an "insanely, algorithmically complicated" election: There's kind of a struggle for what's called the "silent majority," what sometimes the revolutionaries pejoratively term "the couch party".
The rules under which the Egyptian elections will be conducted are, as one friend of mine in the operational wing of the new Egyptian Social Democratic Party told me, "algorithmically complicated".
