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

By John MacCormick

Book information

Publisher
Princeton University Press
ISBN
0691147140, 9780691147147, 0691209065, 9780691209067, 1400839564, 9781400839568, 0691209057, 9780691209050
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
5 MB (4740835 bytes)
Series
Princeton Science Library
Edition
1st Edition
Pages
232\232
Time added
2020-10-15 10:50:18
artificial intelligenceComputer AlgorithmsComputer Science

Description

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. 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? John MacCormick answers this question in language anyone can understand, using vivid examples to explain the fundamental tricks behind nine computer algorithms that power our PCs, tablets, and smartphones.

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