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Author MacCormick, John, 1972-

Title Nine algorithms that changed the future : the ingenious ideas that drive today's computers / John MacCormick ; with a foreword by Chris Bishop
Published Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2012
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Description 1 online resource (x, 219 pages)
Series Book collections on Project MUSE
Contents What are the great ideas that power your PC? -- Search engine indexing, finding needles in the world's biggest haystack -- PageRank, the technology that launched Google -- Public key cryptography, sending secrets on a postcard -- Error correcting codes, mistakes that fix themselves -- Pattern recognition, learning from experience -- Data compression, something for nothing -- Databases, the quest for consistency -- Digital signatures, who really wrote this software? -- What is computable?
Summary Every day, we use our computers to perform remarkable feats. A simple web search picks out a handful of relevant needles from the world's biggest haystack: the billions of pages on the World Wide Web. Uploading a photo to Facebook transmits millions of pieces of information over numerous error-prone network links, yet somehow a perfect copy of the photo arrives intact. Without even knowing it, we use public-key cryptography to transmit secret information like credit card numbers; and we use digital signatures to verify the identity of the websites we visit. How do our computers perform these t
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Computer science.
Computer algorithms.
Artificial intelligence.
Electronic Data Processing
Algorithms
Artificial Intelligence
algorithms.
artificial intelligence.
COMPUTERS -- Enterprise Applications -- Business Intelligence Tools.
COMPUTERS -- Intelligence (AI) & Semantics.
COMPUTERS -- Programming -- Algorithms.
Artificial intelligence
Computer algorithms
Computer science
Informatik
Algorithmus
Künstliche Intelligenz
Informatik.
Algorithmus.
Künstliche Intelligenz.
Computer science -- Social aspects.
Computer algorithms.
Artificial intelligence.
Datavetenskap.
Artificiell intelligens.
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2021697148
ISBN 9780691209050
0691209057
9781400839568
1400839564
9786613290663
6613290661