What algorithms want : imagination in the ageof computing /
Finn, Ed,1980-author.
The gap between theoretical ideas and messy reality, as seen in Neal Stephenson, Adam Smith, and Star Trek.
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Mode of access: World Wide Web
Previously issued in print: 2017.
Specialized.
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.
The gap between theoretical ideas and messy reality, as seen in Neal Stephenson, Adam Smith, and Star Trek.
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Information technology
Computers
Algorithms
DIGITAL HUMANITIES & NEW MEDIA/New Media Theory
SOCIAL SCIENCES/Media Studies
DIGITAL HUMANITIES & NEW MEDIA/General
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