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Nine Algorithms That Changed the Future : The Ingenious Ideas That Drive Today's Computers /
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Oxfordshire :
Princeton University Press,
2020.
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- What are the extraordinary ideas computers use every day?
- 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?
- More genius at your fingertips?