"You Are Not Expected to Understand This" : : How 26 Lines of Code Changed the World /

"You Are Not Expected to Understand This" : : How 26 Lines of Code Changed the World / / ed. by Torie Bosch.

Leading technologists, historians, and journalists reveal the stories behind the computer coding that touches all aspects of life—for better or worseFew of us give much thought to computer code or how it comes to be. The very word “code” makes it sound immutable or even inevitable. “You Are Not Expe...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2022 English
MitwirkendeR:
Alimardani, Mahsa,
Bosch, Torie,
Botella, Elena,
Broussard, Meredith,
Cassel, David,
Chudler, Kelly,
Daemmrich, Arthur,
DuPont, Quinn,
Duan, Charles,
Evans, Claire L.,
Farid, Hany,
Ferdous Jana, Syeda Gulshan,
Grimmelmann, James,
Hafner, Katie,
Herring, Susan C.,
Liu, Lowen,
MacCormick, John,
McCullough, Brian,
McIlwain, Charlton,
Newman, Lily Hay,
Oremus, Will,
O’Mara, Margaret,
Partridge, Nick,
Pope, Benjamin,
Rankin, Joy Lisi,
Rigot, Afsaneh,
Stofan, Ellen R.,
Ullman, Ellen,
Vinsel, Lee,
Wolff, Josephine,
Zuckerman, Ethan,
HerausgeberIn:
Bosch, Torie,
Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2022]
©2022
Year of Publication:2022
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (216 p.) :; 19 b/w illus.
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • Introduction
  • 1. The First Line of Code
  • 2. Monte Carlo Algorithms: Random Numbers in Computing from the H-Bomb to Today
  • 3. Jean Sammet and the Code That Runs the World
  • 4. Spacewar: Collaborative Coding and the Rise of Gaming Culture
  • 5. BASIC and the Illusion of Coding Empowerment
  • 6. The First Email: The Code That Connected Us Online
  • 7. The Police Beat Algorithm: The Code That Launched Computational Policing and Modern Racial Profiling
  • 8. “Apollo 11, Do Bailout”
  • 9. The Most Famous Comment in Unix History: “You Are Not Expected to Understand This”
  • 10. The Accidental Felon
  • 11. Internet Relay Chat: From Fish-Slap to LOL
  • 12. Hyperlink: The Idea That Led to Another, and Another, and Another
  • 13. JPEG: The Unsung Hero in the Digital Revolution
  • 14. The Viral Internet Image You’ve Never Seen
  • 15. The Pop-Up Ad: The Code That Made the Internet Worse
  • 16. Wear This Code, Go to Jail
  • 17. Needles in the World’s Biggest Haystack: The Algorithm That Ranked the Internet
  • 18. A Failure to Interoperate: The Lost Mars Climate Orbiter
  • 19. The Code That Launched a Million Cat Videos
  • 20. Nakamoto’s Prophecy: Bitcoin and the Revolution in Trust
  • 21. The Curse of the Awesome Button
  • 22. The Bug No One Was Responsible For—Until Everyone Was
  • 23. The Volkswagen Emissions Scandal: How Digital Systems Can Be Used to Cheat
  • 24 The Code That Brought a Language Online
  • 25. Telegram: The Platform That Became “the Internet” in Iran
  • 26. Encoding Gender
  • Acknowledgments
  • Notes
  • Contributors
  • Index

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