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

by John MacCormick and John MacCormick

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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...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0691158193

ISBN13:9780691158198

Release Date:May 2013

Publisher:Princeton University Press

Length:219 Pages

Weight:0.87 lbs.

Dimensions:0.7" x 6.3" x 9.1"

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Computers Computers & Technology Human Vision & Language Systems

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