What Algorithms Want : Imagination in the Age of Computing /

The gap between theoretical ideas and messy reality, as seen in Neal Stephenson, Adam Smith, and Star Trek.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Finn, Ed, 1980- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge, MA : MIT Press, [2017]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Information technology > Social aspects.
Computers > Social aspects.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > General.
54.00 computer science: general.
Algorithmes > Aspect social.
Ordinateurs > Aspect social.
Technologie de l'information > Aspect social.
Algorithms > Social aspects.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Acknowledgements
  • Introduction
  • What is an algorithm?
  • Building the "Star Trek" computer
  • "House of Cards" : the aesthetics of abstraction
  • Coding "Cow Clicker" : the work of algorithms
  • Counting Bitcoin
  • Coda: the algorithmic imagination
  • Notes
  • Works cited
  • Figure credits
  • Index.

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