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Title Nine algorithms that changed the future : the ingenious ideas that drive today's computers / John MacCormick ; with a foreword by Chris Bishop.
Author MacCormick, John, 1972-
Published Princeton, NJ ; Oxford : Princeton University Press, 2012.


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Description x, 219 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
ISBN 9780691147147 (hbk.)
0691147140 (hbk.)
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
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?
Library Class Computing K20
Subject Computer science.
Computer algorithms.
Artificial intelligence.

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