Daston, Lorraine
Summary: "We are, all of us, everywhere, always, enmeshed in a web of rules and constraints. Rules fix the beginning and end of the working day and the school year, direct the ebb and flow of traffic on the roads, dictate who can be married to whom and how, place the fork to the right or the left of the plate, lay down the meter and rhyme scheme of a Petrarchan sonnet, and order the rites of birth and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Princeton University Press 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 303.3 DASGonzález, Echo Elise
Summary: A graphic-style nonfiction adventure into fundamental concepts in computer science. -- adapted from publisher's website.
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Publisher / Publication Date: World Book, a Scott Fetzer Company 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 005.13 GONChayka, Kyle
Summary: "From New Yorker staff writer and author of The Longing for Less Kyle Chayka comes a timely history and investigation of a world ruled by algorithms, which determine the shape of culture itself. From coffee shops to rental apartments to social media posts the world round, a sleek and deceptively simple aesthetic has come to predominate. It's in the neon signs and exposed brick of an Internet...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2024
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Summary: Do you know how to create an algorithm? These cats sure do! Author Brian P. Cleary and illustrator (and coding hobbyist) Martin Goneau offer a fun and accessible introduction to algorithms with the help of the CATegorical cats.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Millbrook Press 2019
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J 005.2 CLEMaeda, John
Summary: "John Maeda is one of the world's preeminent interdisciplinary thinkers on technology and design. In How to Speak Machine, he offers a set of simple laws that govern not only the computers of today, but the unimaginable machines of the future. Technology is already more powerful than we can comprehend, and getting more powerful at an exponential pace. Once set in motion, algorithms never tire....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Portfolio//Penguin 2019
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harcourt 2000
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 511.8 BERSinger, Randy (Randy D.)
Summary: Three ambitious law students at a legal aid clinic watch as the ordinary case transforms into a trial of deception and betrayal. The man they are representing David Hoffman has defrauded the government and eluded the mob. He has a coded algorithm capable of crippling the Internet and threatening national security. Caught in the middle, these would be lawyers must overcome their differences and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Waterbrook Press 2007
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SINSiu, Kaitlyn
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J STEM SiuSteiner, Christopher.
Summary: The interaction of man and machine can make our lives easier. But what will the world look like when algorithms control our hospitals, our roads, our culture, and our national security? It used to be that to diagnose an illness, interpret legal documents, analyze foreign policy, or write a newspaper article you needed a human being with specific skills--and maybe an advanced degree or two....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Portfolio/Penguin 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 332.01 STENoble, Safiya Umoja
Summary: « In Algorithms of Oppression, Safiya Umoja Noble challenges the idea that search engines like Google offer an equal playing field for all forms of ideas, identities, and activities. Data discrimination is a real social problem. Noble argues that the combination of private interests in promoting certain sites, along with the monopoly status of a relatively small number of Internet search...
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Publisher / Publication Date: New York University Press, [2018] 2018
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Kevin Slavin argues that we're living in a world increasingly controlled by algorithms. In this riveting TEDTalk, Slavin shows how these complex computer programs determine espionage tactics, stock prices, and even the budget and rating for Hollywood movies. But what happens when these formulae go awry? Everything from an ordinary book on Amazon being priced at
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2011
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Gifford, Clive
Summary: "Awesome Algorithms and Creative Coding explores how computers work and explains how to think in a logical way. The bright and engaging design guides readers through clear explanations of binary code, simple algorithms, and computer language. With real-life examples, students learn about the development of coding using simple decision-making processes. Programming languages that readers can use...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crabtree Publishing Company 2015
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 005 GIFBessie, Adam
Summary: "With Peter Glanting's powerful illustrations, author Adam Bessie, an English professor and graphic essayist, uses the unique historical moment of the COVID-19 pandemic as a catalyst to explore the existing inequalities and student struggles that plague the public education system. This graphic memoir chronicles the reverberations from the onset of the pandemic in 2020 when students and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Censored Press 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 BESSIE, ADAM BESSummary: Nothing is what it seems when John Weir, a master of deception in the world of corporate espionage, is framed for murder by powerful forces with the ability to influence and control populations. The series stars Emmy Award Winner, Kiefer Sutherland as private espionage operative John Weir, who finds himself in the midst of a battle over the preservation of democracy in a world at odds with...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV RABSummary: "I am a mathematician, and I would like to stand on your roof." That's how Ron Eglash greeted many African families he met while researching the fractal patterns he'd noticed in villages across the continent. In this TEDTalk, Eglash, an ethnomathematician, illustrates how math and culture intersect by showing that many aspects of African design - in architecture, art, and even games - are based...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2007