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What algorithms want : imagination in the age of computing / Ed Finn.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Finn, Ed, author.
- Series:
- The MIT Press
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Information technology--Social aspects.
- Information technology.
- Computers--Social aspects.
- Computers.
- Algorithms--Social aspects.
- Algorithms.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (267 pages) : illustrations
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Massachusetts ; London, England : The MIT Press, [2017]
- Summary:
- The gap between theoretical ideas and messy reality, as seen in Neal Stephenson, Adam Smith, and Star Trek.
- Contents:
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- What is an algorithm?
- Building the star trek computer
- House of cards: the aesthetics of abstraction
- Coding cow clicker: the work of algorithms
- Counting bitcoin
- Coda: the algorithmic imagination
- Notes
- Figure credits
- Works cited
- Index.
- Notes:
- Previously issued in print: 2017.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
- ISBN:
- 0-262-33884-X
- 0-262-33883-1
- OCLC:
- 974915437
- Publisher Number:
- 40026994142
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