Nine Algorithms That Changed the Future: The Ingenious Ideas That Drive Today's Computers

John Maccormick

ISBN 10: 0691147140 ISBN 13: 9780691147147

Editorial: Princeton University Press January 2012, 2012

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Nine Algorithms That Changed the Future: The Ingenious Ideas That Drive Today's Computers

Editor

Princeton University Press January 2012

Fecha de publicaci�n

2012

Idioma

Ingl�s

ISBN 10

0691147140

ISBN 13

9780691147147

Encuadernaci�n

Hardcover

Edici�n

First Edition.

Estado

Very Good

Estado de la sobrecubierta

Near Fine

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Every day, we use our computers to perform remarkable feats. A simple web search picks out a handful of relevant needles from the world's biggest haystack: the billions of pages on the World Wide Web. Uploading a photo to Facebook transmits millions of pieces of information over numerous error-prone network links, yet somehow a perfect copy of the photo arrives intact. Without even knowing it, we use public-key cryptography to transmit secret information like credit card numbers; and, we use digital signatures to verify the identity of the websites we visit. How do our computers perform these tasks with such ease? This is the first book to answer that question in language anyone can understand, revealing the extraordinary ideas that power our PCs, laptops, and smartphones. Using vivid examples, John MacCormick explains the fundamental "tricks" behind nine types of computer algorithms, including artificial intelligence (where we learn about the "nearest neighbor trick" and "twenty questions trick"), Google's famous PageRank algorithm (which uses the "random surfer trick"), data compression, error correction, and much more. These revolutionary algorithms have changed our world: this book unlocks their secrets, and lays bare the incredible ideas that our computers use every day.

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John MacCormick is a leading researcher and teacher of computer science. He has a PhD in computer vision from the University of Oxford, has worked in the research labs of Hewlett-Packard and Microsoft, and is currently a professor of computer science at Dickinson College.

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