{"title":"Review of The Age of Algorithms by Serge Abiteboul and Gilles Dowek","authors":"Gilles Dowek","doi":"10.1145/3510382.3510387","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"This book is about algorithms and their enormous influence on people in the current age. Algorithms are precise sets of rules to solve problems. They are ubiquitous and have a great effect on the lives of contemporary people, primarily due to technological advancement. A common example is searching for information using an Internet search engine such as Google. This book is not technical in nature and was first published in French as Le Temps des Algorithmes, by ´ Editions Le Pommier in 2020. The authors Serge Abiteboul and Gilles Dowek are computer scientists, with Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et en Automatique (INRIA), Rocquencourt and ´ Ecole Normale Sup´erieure, Paris respectively. They believe that algorithms have made life easier, nevertheless, they dread that algorithms may subjugate humans. This book is intended to serve as an eye-opener on the impact of algorithms on daily life.","PeriodicalId":387985,"journal":{"name":"ACM SIGACT News","volume":"281 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2021-12-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"ACM SIGACT News","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1145/3510382.3510387","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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This book is about algorithms and their enormous influence on people in the current age. Algorithms are precise sets of rules to solve problems. They are ubiquitous and have a great effect on the lives of contemporary people, primarily due to technological advancement. A common example is searching for information using an Internet search engine such as Google. This book is not technical in nature and was first published in French as Le Temps des Algorithmes, by ´ Editions Le Pommier in 2020. The authors Serge Abiteboul and Gilles Dowek are computer scientists, with Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et en Automatique (INRIA), Rocquencourt and ´ Ecole Normale Sup´erieure, Paris respectively. They believe that algorithms have made life easier, nevertheless, they dread that algorithms may subjugate humans. This book is intended to serve as an eye-opener on the impact of algorithms on daily life.
这本书是关于算法及其对当今时代人们的巨大影响。算法是解决问题的精确规则集。它们无处不在,对当代人的生活有很大的影响,这主要是由于技术的进步。一个常见的例子是使用互联网搜索引擎(如Google)搜索信息。这本书本质上不是技术性的,并于2020年由Editions Le Pommier首次以法语出版,名为Le Temps des Algorithmes。作者Serge Abiteboul和Gilles Dowek是计算机科学家,分别就职于法国国家信息与自动化研究所(INRIA)和巴黎高等师范学院。他们相信算法使生活变得更容易,然而,他们担心算法可能会征服人类。这本书的目的是作为一个大开眼界的影响算法对日常生活。