Nine Algorithms That Changed the Future: The Ingenious Ideas That Drive Today's Computers

by John MacCormick and John MacCormick

Book Overview

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: the billions of pages on the World Wide Web. 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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691158193
• ISBN13: 9780691158198
• Release Date: May 2013
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 219 Pages
• Weight: 0.87 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.3" x 9.1"