Nine Algorithms That Changed the Future (eBook)

The Ingenious Ideas That Drive Today's Computers

John MacCormick (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2020
232 Seiten
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-0-691-20905-0 (ISBN)

Infos

Nine revolutionary algorithms that power our computers and smartphonesEvery 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. 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. How do our computers perform these tasks with such ease? John MacCormick answers this question in language anyone can understand, using vivid examples to explain the fundamental tricks behind nine computer algorithms that power our PCs, tablets, and smartphones.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 15.9.2020
• Reihe/Serie: Princeton Science Library
• Reihe/Serie: Princeton Science Library
• Zusatzinfo: 103 b/w illus. 1 table.
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Mathematik / Informatik ► Informatik ► Datenbanken
• Themenwelt: Informatik ► Theorie / Studium ► Algorithmen
• Themenwelt: Mathematik / Informatik ► Informatik ► Web / Internet
• Themenwelt: Technik ► Maschinenbau
• Schlagworte: Addition • Advanced Encryption Standard • Alan Turing • algorithm • Altavista • Analogy • analytical engine • Artificial Intelligence • Artificial Neural Network • Binary number • block cipher • Calculation • certificate authority • Charles Babbage Institute • Checksum • Church–Turing thesis • Claude Shannon • Computation • Computer • Computer Program • Computer Science • Computer Scientist • computer simulation • computing • Computing Machinery and Intelligence • credit card • cryptographic hash function • cryptography • Database • Decision Tree • Diffie–Hellman key exchange • digital signature • Email • exponentiation • Factorization • Forward error correction • Hard Disk Drive • HTTPS • Huffman Coding • Hyperlink • Information Retrieval • Information Theory • Instance (computer science) • Instruction set • JPEG • Key exchange • Kilobyte • Laptop • Larry Page • Lecture • Lossless Compression • Lossy Compression • machine learning • mathematician • MD5 • Memex • Microsoft • Microsoft Word • modular arithmetic • MP3 • Notation • Online Banking • operating system • Package manager • padlock • Pagerank • Password • pattern recognition • Phrase • Pixel • Postcard • Programmer • Public-Key Cryptography • Quantum Computing • Ranking (information retrieval) • Reed–Solomon error correction • Relational algebra • result • run-length encoding • Scientist • Search Algorithm • Sergey Brin • Server (computing) • Software • source code • Spamdexing • Spamming • Special folder • Support Vector Machine • Technology • Terminology • turing test • User (computing) • Web browser • Web Page • Web search engine • Web search query • Website • World Wide Web • Your Computer (British magazine)
• ISBN-10: 0-691-20905-7 / 0691209057
• ISBN-13: 978-0-691-20905-0 / 9780691209050