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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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: MacCormick, John, 1972-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2012.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Computer science.
Computer algorithms.
Artificial intelligence.
Electronic Data Processing
Algorithms
Artificial Intelligence
Informatique.
Algorithmes.
Intelligence artificielle.
algorithms.
artificial intelligence.
COMPUTERS > Enterprise Applications > Business Intelligence Tools.
COMPUTERS > Intelligence (AI) & Semantics.
COMPUTERS > Programming > Algorithms.
Informatik.
Algorithmus.
Künstliche Intelligenz.
Computer science > Social aspects.
Datavetenskap.
Artificiell intelligens.
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Table of 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?

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