Nine Algorithms That Changed the Future : The Ingenious Ideas That Drive Today's Computers /

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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-...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: MacCormick, John (Autor)
Otros Autores: Bishop, Chris
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [2011]
Temas:
Artificial intelligence.
Computer algorithms.
Computer science.
COMPUTERS / Programming / Algorithms.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • Foreword
  • 1. Introduction: What Are the Extraordinary Ideas Computers Use Every Day?
  • 2. Search Engine Indexing: Finding Needles in the World's Biggest Haystack
  • 3. PageRank: The Technology That Launched Google
  • 4. Public Key Cryptography: Sending Secrets on a Postcard
  • 5. Error-Correcting Codes: Mistakes That Fix Themselves
  • 6. Pattern Recognition: Learning from Experience
  • 7. Data Compression: Something for Nothing
  • 8. Databases: The Quest for Consistency
  • 9. Digital Signatures: Who Really Wrote This Software?
  • 10. What Is Computable?
  • 11. Conclusion: More Genius at Your Fingertips?
  • Acknowledgments
  • Sources and Further Reading
  • Index

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