John MacCormick

Nine Algorithms That Changed the Future

The Ingenious Ideas That Drive Today's Computers

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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. 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.

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Produktdetails

• Princeton Science Library
• Verlag: Princeton University Press
• Seitenzahl: 232
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. September 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 144mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 252g
• ISBN-13: 9780691209067
• ISBN-10: 0691209065
• Artikelnr.: 58815109

Autorenporträt

John MacCormick is associate professor of computer science at Dickinson College and a leading teacher, researcher, and writer in his field. His books include What Can Be Computed? A Practical Guide to the Theory of Computation (Princeton).

Rezensionen

"Nine Algorithms That Changed the Future offers a great way to find out what computer science is really about. In this very readable book, MacCormick (a computer scientist at Dickinson College) shows how a collection of sets of intangible instructions invented since the 1940s has led to monumental changes in all our lives. . . . MacCormick provides a taste of why we computer scientists get so excited about algorithms--for their utility, of course, but also for their beauty and elegance."—Paul Curzon, Science