Crowdsourcing involves obtaining work, information, or opinions from a large group of people via the Internet, social media, and smartphone apps.

Business logic is the custom rules or algorithms that handle the exchange of information between a database and user interface.

In his book The Master Algorithm, Pedro Domingos offers a masterfully simple definition: “An algorithm is,” Domingos writes, “a sequence of instructions telling a computer what to do.” ...

In the age of Facebook and Netflix, the word “algorithm” has become so ubiquitous, and its connotation so amorphous, that it’s verging on jargon—maybe even cliché. The Atlantic’s Ian ...