Nine algorithms that changed the future :
by MacCormick, John,
Published by : Princeton University Press, (Princeton, N.J. :) Physical details: x, 219 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. ISBN:9780691147147 (hardcover : alk. paper). Year: 2012
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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?
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