Nine algorithms that changed the future : the ingenious ideas that drive today's computers /
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-...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Princeton :
Princeton University Press,
2012.
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| Summary: | 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 like credit card numbers; and we use digital signatures to verify the identity of the websites we visit. How do our computers perform these t. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (x, 219 pages) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780691209050 0691209057 9781400839568 1400839564 9786613290663 6613290661 |