Nine Algorithms That Changed the Future: The Ingenious Ideas That Drive Today's Computers [1/6]

Опубликовано 8 сентября 2016, 17:30

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. Without even knowing it, we use public-key cryptography to transmit 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? Nine Algorithms that Changed the Future answers that question in language anyone can understand, revealing the extraordinary ideas that power our PCs, laptops, and smartphones. Using vivid examples, John MacCormick explains the fundamental tricks behind nine types of computer algorithms, including artificial intelligence (where we learn about the nearest