The Constitution of Algorithms: Ground-Truthing, Programming, Formulating (Inside Technology) - Softcover

Book 56 of 63: Inside Technology

Jaton, Florian; Bowker, Geoffrey C.

 
9780262542142: The Constitution of Algorithms: Ground-Truthing, Programming, Formulating (Inside Technology)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0262542145 ISBN 13: 9780262542142
Publisher: MIT Press, 2021

Synopsis

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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About the Author

Florian Jaton is a Postdoctoral Researcher at the STS Lab at the University of Lausanne.

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Publisher
MIT Press
Publication date
2021
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0262542145
ISBN 13 
9780262542142
Binding
Paperback
Number of pages
400