TY  - BOOK
AU  - MacCormick,John
TI  - Nine algorithms that changed the future: the ingenious ideas that drive today's computers 
SN  - 9780691147147 (hardcover : alk. paper)
PY  - 2012///
CY  - Princeton, N.J.
PB  - Princeton University Press
KW  - Computer science
KW  - Computer algorithms
KW  - Artificial intelligence
N1  - 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?
ER  -