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Poemas que Resolvem Problemas - A História e a Ciência dos Algoritmos (Portuguese Edition) Kindle Edition

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Os algoritmos são os métodos invisíveis que os computadores aplicam para processar informação e tomar decisões. Hoje, as nossas vidas são geridas por algoritmos. Eles determinam as notícias que vemos. Influem nos produtos que compramos. Sugerem os nossos parceiros. Podem até estar a determinar o resultado das eleições nacionais. Estão a criar e a destruir indústrias inteiras. Apesar das crescentes preocupações, poucos sabem o que são algoritmos, como funcionam ou quem os criou.
Poemas que Decifram Enigmas conta a história dos algoritmos desde as suas origens na Antiguidade até aos dias de hoje e mais além. O livro apresenta aos leitores os inventores e os eventos inspiradores por trás da génese dos algoritmos mais importantes do mundo. Chris Bleakley conta histórias relacionadas com antigas inscrições sumérias, engenhocas vitorianas movidas a vapor, projetos militares ultrassecretos, académicos sem dinheiro, hippies sonhadores, bilionários tecnológicos, inteligências artificiais sobre-humanas, moedas criptográficas e computação quântica. Pelo caminho, com a ajuda de exemplos e ilustrações claras, o livro explica como funcionam os algoritmos mais influentes, com o da Amazon ou do Facebook.

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ASIN ‏ : ‎ B09LXVVSMH
Publisher ‏ : ‎ Edições 70 (November 1, 2021)
Publication date ‏ : ‎ November 1, 2021
Language ‏ : ‎ Portuguese
File size ‏ : ‎ 1242 KB
Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Not Enabled
Sticky notes ‏ : ‎ On Kindle Scribe
Print length ‏ : ‎ 387 pages

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Chris Bleakley

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Chris is a Professor in the School of Computer Science at University College Dublin (UCD), Ireland. Chris has thirty-five years of experience in algorithm and software design. He has taught and written on the subject for the last sixteen of those years.

As a school kid, Chris taught himself how to program on a home computer. Within two years, he was selling his own computer programs by mail order to customers throughout the UK.

Chris graduated with a BSc (Hons) degree in Computer Science from Queen’s University, Belfast, and a PhD degree in Electronic Engineering from Dublin City University. After college, he was employed as a software consultant by Accenture and, later, as a senior researcher by Broadcom Éireann Research. Thereafter, he was appointed Vice President of Engineering at Massana, a leading-edge start-up company developing integrated circuits and software for data communications.

Today, Chris leads a research group focused on inventing novel algorithms for analysing real-world sensor data. His work has been published in leading peer-reviewed journals and presented at major international conferences.