What algorithms want : imagination in the age of computing

9780262035927

viii, 257 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Includes bibliographical references and index

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
Figure credits
Works cited
Index

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