MacCormick, John, 1972-
Nine algorithms that changed the future : the ingenious ideas that drive today's computers / John MacCormick ; with a foreword by Chris Bishop. - Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, c2012. - x, 219 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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?
9780691147147 (hardcover : alk. paper)
40020407788
2011008867
Computer science.
Computer algorithms.
Artificial intelligence.
Nine algorithms that changed the future : the ingenious ideas that drive today's computers / John MacCormick ; with a foreword by Chris Bishop. - Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, c2012. - x, 219 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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?
9780691147147 (hardcover : alk. paper)
40020407788
2011008867
Computer science.
Computer algorithms.
Artificial intelligence.