| Description |
x, 219 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm |
| 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? |
| Subject |
Computer science.
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Computer algorithms.
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Artificial intelligence.
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| ISBN |
9780691147147 hardcover alkaline paper |
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0691147140 hardcover alkaline paper |
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