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Nine Algorithms That Changed The Future: The Ingenious Ideas That Drive Today’s Computers / John MacCormick

Publication year: 2020

ISBN: 9780691209050

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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. 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?


Subject: Computer science, Computer algorithms, Artificial intelligence