مشخصات کلی What algorithms want : imagination in the age of computing
نویسنده کتاب (Author):
انتشارات (Publisher):
Cambridge, Massachusetts ; London, England : The MIT Press, [2017] ©2017خرید و فروش فایل
ویرایش و نوع فایل (Edition/Format):
Print book : Document Computer File : English فروش فایل تخصصی
منبع (Database):
موضوع (Subject):
Information technology — Social aspects. Computers — Social aspects. Algorithms — Social aspects.
توضیحات خلاصه (Summary):
We depend on–we believe in–algorithms to help us get a ride, choose which book to buy, execute a mathematical proof. It’s as if we think of code as a magic spell, an incantation to reveal what we need to know and even what we want. Humans have always believed that certain invocations–the marriage vow, the shaman’s curse–do not merely describe the world but make it. Computation casts a cultural shadow that is shaped by this long tradition of magical thinking. In this book, Ed Finn considers how the algorithm–in practical terms, “a method for solving a problem”–has its roots not only in mathematical logic but also in cybernetics, philosophy, and magical thinking. Finn argues that the algorithm deploys concepts from the idealized space of computation in a messy reality, with unpredictable and sometimes fascinating results. Drawing on sources that range from Neal Stephenson’s Snow Crash to Diderot’s Encyclopédie, from Adam Smith to the Star Trek computer, Finn explores the gap between theoretical ideas and pragmatic instructions. He examines the development of intelligent assistants like Siri, the rise of algorithmic aesthetics at Netflix, Ian Bogost’s satiric Facebook game Cow Clicker, and the revolutionary economics of Bitcoin. He describes Google’s goal of anticipating our questions, Uber’s cartoon maps and black box accounting, and what Facebook tells us about programmable value, among other things. If we want to understand the gap between abstraction and messy reality, Finn argues, we need to build a model of “algorithmic reading” and scholarship that attends to process, spearheading a new experimental humanities.–Publisher website. Read more…
اضافی فرمت فیزیکی:(DLC) 2016030924
(OCoLC)958795990
موضوع:Document
نوع منبع:Book, Computer File
تمام نویسندگان / همکاران: Ed Finn Find more information about: Ed Finn
شناسه شابک ISBN:9780262338837 0262338831
شناسه OCLC:979270254
جزئیات Description:1 online resource (viii, 257 pages ): illustrations.
فهرست محتوا: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 —
یادداشت —
Works cited —
Figure credits —
Index.
مسئوليت Responsibility:Ed Finn.
