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“By marrying ethnography and hands-on practice of ground-truthing, programming, and formulating, Jaton discovers all the small but important details and practices that go into creating algorithms.” —TechTalks

Table Of Contents

Foreword ix
Acknowledgments xi
Introduction 1
I Ground-Truthing 27
1 Studying Computer Scientists 31
2 A First Case Study 51
II Programming 87
3 Von Neumann’s Draft, Electronic Brains, and Cognition 93
4 A Second Case Study 135
III Formulating 197
5 Mathematics as a Science 203
6 A Third Case Study 237
Conclusion 283
Glosary 291
Notes 299
References 325
Index 365

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