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

Name: Nine Algorithms That Changed the Future The Ingenious Ideas That Drive Today's Computers
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ISBN: 9780691158198

ISBN-10: 0691158193

ISBN-13: 9780691158198

Edition: 2013

Authors: John MacCormick, Chris Bishop

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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…

Book details

List price: $13.99
Copyright year: 2013
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Publication date: 5/10/2013
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 232
Size: 6.25" wide x 9.25" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 0.814
Language: English



Foreword



Introduction: What Are the Extraordinary Ideas Computers Use Every Day?



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?



Conclusion: More Genius at Your Fingertips?


Acknowledgments


Sources and Further Reading


Index