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Nine algorithms that changed the future [electronic resource] : the ingenious ideas that drive today's computers / John MacCormick.

MacCormick, John, 1972-
2012
QA76 .M21453 2012eb
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Title
Nine algorithms that changed the future [electronic resource] : the ingenious ideas that drive today's computers / John MacCormick.
Author
MacCormick, John, 1972-
ISBN
9781400839568 (electronic book)
9780691147147
Published
Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, 2012.
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (x, 219 pages) : illustrations
Call Number
QA76 .M21453 2012eb
Dewey Decimal Classification
006.3
Summary
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.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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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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