Bitwise : a life in code
(Book)
Author
Published
New York : Pantheon Books, [2018].
Format
Book
Edition
First edition.
ISBN
9781101871294 :, 1101871296
Status
Chappaqua Library - Nonfiction
004.092 AUERBACH
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004.092 AUERBACH
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Mount Vernon Public Library - Nonfiction
004.092 A
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004.092 A
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White Plains Public Library - Nonfiction
004 A
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Published
New York : Pantheon Books, [2018].
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
ix, 290 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
ISBN
9781101871294 :, 1101871296
Notes
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 269-278) and index.
Description
An exhilarating crossover between memoir and argument demonstrating how computers and algorithms shape our understanding of the world and who we are. As we engineer ever-more intricate algorithms to translate our experiences and narrow the gap that divides us from the machine, we willingly rub out our nuances and our idiosyncrasies--precisely that which makes us human. Bitwise is David Auerbach's thoughtful ode to the computer codes and languages that captured his imagination as a child, and a reflectionof how he's both experienced and written the algorithms that have come to taxonomize human speech, knowledge, and behavior--and compel us to do the same. With a philosopher's sense of inquiry and an engineer's eye, Auerbach recounts his childhood spent drawing ferns with the programming language Logo on the Apple IIe, his adventures in early text-based video games, his schooling as an engineer, and his contributions to instant messaging technology developed for Microsoft and then to software built to siftthrough Google's data stores. His unsettling conclusion--that algorithms are standardizing and coarsening our own lives--is inescapable."--,Provided by publisher.
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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)
Auerbach, D. (2018). Bitwise: a life in code (First edition.). Pantheon Books.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Auerbach, David. 2018. Bitwise: A Life in Code. Pantheon Books.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Auerbach, David. Bitwise: A Life in Code Pantheon Books, 2018.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)Auerbach, David. Bitwise: A Life in Code First edition., Pantheon Books, 2018.
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