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The Constitution of Algorithms: Ground-Truthing, Programming, Formulating
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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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| Weight | 0.527775 kg |
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| Dimensions | 2.032 × 15.3924 × 23.0124 cm |
| Author(s) | |
| Format Old` | |
| Language | |
| Pages | 400 |
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| Year Published | 2021-4-27 |
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| Publication City/Country | USA |
| ISBN 10 | 0262542145 |
| About The Author | Florian Jaton is a Postdoctoral Researcher at the STS Lab at the University of Lausanne. |
“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 |
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| Other text | “A provocative and skillful study of how algorithms come into the world—and inevitably shape it. Jaton performs the daring feat of offering an empirically rich analysis of algorithms without taking them for granted.”—Malte Ziewitz, Cornell University“This is a remarkable study of the spaces where algorithms are made: at once an ethnographic and theoretical intervention, illuminating the birthplaces of algorithmic systems and the collective processes that shape them.” —Kate Crawford, author of Atlas of AI |
| Table Of Content | Foreword ixAcknowledgments xiIntroduction 1I Ground-Truthing 271 Studying Computer Scientists 312 A First Case Study 51II Programming 873 Von Neumann's Draft, Electronic Brains, and Cognition 934 A Second Case Study 135III Formulating 1975 Mathematics as a Science 2036 A Third Case Study 237Conclusion 283Glosary 291Notes 299References 325Index 365 |
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