9 Algorithms That Changed the Future

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9 Algorithms that Changed the Future - The Ingenious Ideas that Drive Today's Computers
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AuthorJohn MacCormick
Subject Algorithm
Publisher Princeton University Press
Publication date
2012
Publication placeUnited States
Pages232
ISBN 978-0691158198
Website "9 Algorithms that Changed the Future". Archived from the original on 2017-09-04.

9 Algorithms that Changed the Future is a 2012 book by John MacCormick on algorithms. The book seeks to explain commonly encountered computer algorithms to a layman audience.

Contents

Summary

The chapters in the book each cover an algorithm.

  1. Search engine indexing
  2. PageRank
  3. Public-key cryptography
  4. Forward error correction
  5. Pattern recognition
  6. Data compression
  7. Database
  8. Digital signature

Response

One reviewer said the book is written in a clear and simple style. [1]

A reviewer for New York Journal of Books suggested that this book would be a good complement to an introductory college-level computer science course. [2]

Another reviewer called the book "a valuable addition to the popular computing literature". [3]

2020 edition

The book has been re-released by Princeton University Press in 2020. [4] [5]

References

  1. ↑ Grossman, Wendy M (September 25, 2012). "Nine Algorithms That Changed the Future: Book review". ZDNet . Archived from the original on December 23, 2014. Retrieved 9 June 2015.
  2. ↑ Isaacman, Richard (n.d.). "a book review by Dr. Richard Isaacman: Nine Algorithms that Changed the Future: The Ingenious Ideas that Drive Today's Computers". nyjournalofbooks.com. Retrieved 9 June 2015.
  3. ↑ Dupuis, John (June 11, 2012). "Reading Diary: Nine algorithms that changed the future by John MacCormick". scienceblogs.com. Retrieved 9 June 2015.
  4. ↑ MacCormick, John (n.d.). "New edition and audiobook of "9 Algorithms"". dickinson.edu. Retrieved 28 September 2021.
  5. ↑ "Nine Algorithms That Changed the Future: The Ingenious Ideas That Drive Today's Computers". princeton.edu. n.d. Retrieved 28 September 2021.
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