TEXT: Suresh Venkatasubramanian, an associate professor in the University of Utah's School of Computing, leads a team of researchers that have discovered a technique to determine if algorithms used for tasks such as hiring or administering housing loans could in fact discriminate unintentionally. The team also has discovered a way to fix such errors if they exist. Their findings were recently revealed at  the 21st Association for Computing Machinery's SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining in Sydney, Australia.