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245 10 a| Nine algorithms that changed the future :b| the ingenious ideas that drive today's computers /c| John MacCormick ; with a foreword by Chris Bishop.;

300 a| x, 219 pages :b| illustrations ;c| 25 cm;

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504 a| Includes bibliographical references and index.;

505 0 a| 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?;

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Nine algorithms that changed the future : the ingenious ideas that drive today's computers / John MacCormick ; with a foreword by Chris Bishop.

Author/creator	MacCormick, John, 1972-
Format	Book
Publication Info	Princeton : Princeton University Press, ©2012.
Description	x, 219 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Subjects	Computer science. Computer algorithms. Artificial intelligence.

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?
Local note	Little-3051310595571
Bibliography note	Includes bibliographical references and index.
LCCN	2011008867
ISBN	9780691147147 (hardcover : alk. paper)
ISBN	0691147140 (hardcover : alk. paper)

Nine algorithms that changed the future : the ingenious ideas that drive today's computers / John MacCormick ; with a foreword by Chris Bishop.

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