Description |
1 online resource (x, 219 pages) |
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Book collections on Project MUSE
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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 |
Notes |
English |
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Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed |
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Computer science.
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Computer algorithms.
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Artificial intelligence.
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Electronic Data Processing
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Algorithms
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Artificial Intelligence
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algorithms.
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artificial intelligence.
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COMPUTERS -- Enterprise Applications -- Business Intelligence Tools.
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COMPUTERS -- Intelligence (AI) & Semantics.
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COMPUTERS -- Programming -- Algorithms.
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Artificial intelligence
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Computer algorithms
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Computer science
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Informatik
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Algorithmus
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Künstliche Intelligenz
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Informatik.
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Algorithmus.
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Künstliche Intelligenz.
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Computer science -- Social aspects.
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Computer algorithms.
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Artificial intelligence.
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Datavetenskap.
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Artificiell intelligens.
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Electronic book
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LC no. |
2021697148 |
ISBN |
9780691209050 |
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0691209057 |
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9781400839568 |
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1400839564 |
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9786613290663 |
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6613290661 |
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