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What algorithms want : imagination in the age of computing /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Finn, Ed, 1980- (Author)
Corporate Author: ProQuest (Firm)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, [2017]
Subjects:
Information technology > Social aspects.
Computers > Social aspects.
Algorithms > Social aspects.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Acknowledgements
  • Introduction
  • What is an algorithm?
  • Building the "Star Trek" computer
  • "House of Cards" : the aesthetics of abstraction
  • Coding "Cow Clicker" : the work of algorithms
  • Counting Bitcoin
  • Coda: the algorithmic imagination
  • Notes
  • Works cited
  • Figure credits
  • Index.