The Everyday Life of an Algorithm

by Daniel Neyland

Book Overview

This open access book begins with an algorithm-a set of IF...THEN rules used in the development of a new, ethical, video surveillance architecture for transport hubs. Readers are invited to follow the algorithm over three years, charting its everyday life. Questions of ethics, transparency, accountability and market value must be grasped by the algorithm in a series of ever more demanding forms of experimentation. Here the algorithm must prove its...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1013275896
• ISBN13: 9781013275890
• Release Date: October 2020
• Publisher: Saint Philip Street Press
• Length: 156 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 8.5" x 11.0"