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

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
Autor principal: MacCormick, John, 1972-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2012.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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?