Trading used to be about gut feelings and reading charts. Traders sat at desks watching screens, trying to spot patterns that meant prices would go up or down. That world exists still but machines can ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Faculty member at Columbia University. Founder and CEO of OORT. Graph on a trader's computer screen, representing the concept of ...

Machine learning is a subfield of artificial intelligence, which explores how to computationally simulate (or surpass) humanlike intelligence. While some AI techniques (such as expert systems) use ...