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Nine algorithms that changed the future : the ingenious ideas that drive today's computers / John MacCormick.
LIBRA QA76 M21453 2012
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- MacCormick, John, 1972-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Computer science.
- Computer algorithms.
- Artificial intelligence.
- Physical Description:
- x, 219 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Other Title:
- 9 algorithms that changed the future
- Place of Publication:
- Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, 2012.
- Contents:
- 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?
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780691147147
- 0691147140
- OCLC:
- 711959719
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