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.

Détails bibliographiques
Auteur principal: Finn, Ed, 1980- (Auteur)
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Cambridge, MA : MIT Press, [2017]
Collection:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Sujets:
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.
Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • 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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