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 acti