Nine Algorithms That Changed the Future : The Ingenious Ideas That Drive Today's Computers By Maccormick, John / Bishop, Chris (FRW) Publisher : Princeton Univ Pr Published Date : 2011/12 Binding : Hardcover ISBN : 9780691147147 BookWeb Price : THB 925.00 Kinokuniya Privilege Card member price : THB 833.00 Availability Status : Available for order from suppliers. Usually dispatches within 2-3 weeks. Language : English

 
Foreword                                           ix
    1 Introduction: What Are the Extraordinary     1  (9)
    Ideas Computers Use Every Day?
    2 Search Engine Indexing: Finding Needles      10 (14)
    in the World's Biggest Haystack
    3 PageRank: The Technology That Launched       24 (14)
    Google
    4 Public Key Cryptography: Sending Secrets     38 (22)
    on a Postcard
    5 Error-Correcting Codes: Mistakes That Fix    60 (20)
    Themselves
    6 Pattern Recognition: Learning from           80 (25)
    Experience
    7 Data Compression: Something for Nothing      105(17)
    8 Databases: The Quest for Consistency         122(27)
    9 Digital Signatures: Who Really Wrote This    149(25)
    Software?
    10 What is Computable?                         174(25)
    11 Conclusion: More Genius at Your             199(6)
    Fingertips?
Acknowledgments                                    205(2)
Sources and Further Reading                        207(4)
Index                                              211