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Nine Algorithms That Changed The Future: The Ingenious Ideas That Drive Today's Computers (2012)

by John MacCormick(Favorite Author)

3.74 of 5 Votes: 5

ISBN

0691147140 (ISBN13: 9780691147147)

languge

English

genre

Nonfiction

publisher

Princeton University Press

review 1: Nine Algorithms That Changed the Future (2013) by John MacCormick is a well written good read that looks at exactly what the title suggests. The book covers indexing, pagerank, public key cryptography, error correcting codes, pattern recognition, data compression, database algorithms, digital signatures and also covers computability.The chapters do involve thought and the book isn’t a completely light read. But it’s well worth it. Along with Patterns in The Stone this is one of the best books I’ve seen that explains computing concepts clearly to people who are not programmers.
review 2: This book describes nine revolutionary algorithms without delving into deep computer science or mathematics. Ideas such as these truly are the core of software engineerin... moreg, and one of the main reasons I got into this field. In the conclusion, the author speculates on what sorts of solutions might be generated in the near future - very interesting ideas.In my opinion, both the description the Pattern Recognition algorithms and the overview of the Halting Problem were more complex than they needed to be. A discussion of neurons from other popular science books would improve the former; the latter may just require editing. Regardless, this is a very good introduction to these algorithms. less

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