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The Constitution of Algorithms

Ground-Truthing, Programming, Formulating

Ground-Truthing, Programming, Formulating

By Florian Jaton
Foreword by Geoffrey C. Bowker

By Florian Jaton
Foreword by Geoffrey C. Bowker

By Florian Jaton
Foreword by Geoffrey C. Bowker

By Florian Jaton
Foreword by Geoffrey C. Bowker

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    About The Constitution of Algorithms

    A laboratory study that investigates how algorithms come into existence.

    Algorithms–often associated with the terms big data, machine learning, or artificial intelligence–underlie the technologies we use every day, and disputes over the consequences, actual or potential, of new algorithms arise regularly. In this book, Florian Jaton offers a new way to study computerized methods, providing an account of where algorithms come from and how they are constituted, investigating the practical activities by which algorithms are progressively assembled rather than what they may suggest or require once they are assembled.

    About The Constitution of Algorithms

    A laboratory study that investigates how algorithms come into existence.

    Algorithms–often associated with the terms big data, machine learning, or artificial intelligence–underlie the technologies we use every day, and disputes over the consequences, actual or potential, of new algorithms arise regularly. In this book, Florian Jaton offers a new way to study computerized methods, providing an account of where algorithms come from and how they are constituted, investigating the practical activities by which algorithms are progressively assembled rather than what they may suggest or require once they are assembled.

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    Category: Technology

    Paperback | $60.00
    Published by The MIT Press
    Apr 27, 2021 | 400 Pages | 6 x 9 | ISBN 9780262542142

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    Ebook | $42.99
    Published by The MIT Press
    Apr 27, 2021 | 400 Pages | 6 x 9 | ISBN 9780262362337

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    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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