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Zusatztext “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 Informationen zum Autor Florian Jaton; foreword by Geoffrey C. Bowker Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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...
