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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Princeton :
Princeton University Press,
2012.
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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?