{"product_id":"the-constitution-of-algorithms-isbn-9780262542142","title":"The Constitution of Algorithms","description":"\u003cb\u003eA laboratory study that investigates how algorithms come into existence.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAlgorithms--often associated with the terms \u003ci\u003ebig data\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003emachine learning,\u003c\/i\u003e or \u003ci\u003eartificial intelligence\u003c\/i\u003e--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.Foreword ix\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments xi\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction 1\u003cbr\u003eI Ground-Truthing 27\u003cbr\u003e1 Studying Computer Scientists 31\u003cbr\u003e2 A First Case Study 51\u003cbr\u003eII Programming 87\u003cbr\u003e3 Von Neumann's Draft, Electronic Brains, and Cognition 93\u003cbr\u003e4 A Second Case Study 135\u003cbr\u003eIII Formulating 197\u003cbr\u003e5 Mathematics as a Science 203\u003cbr\u003e6 A Third Case Study 237\u003cbr\u003eConclusion 283\u003cbr\u003eGlosary 291\u003cbr\u003eNotes 299\u003cbr\u003eReferences 325\u003cbr\u003eIndex 365“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.” —\u003ci\u003eTechTalks\u003c\/i\u003e“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.”\u003cbr\u003e—\u003cb\u003eMalte Ziewitz, Cornell University\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e“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.” \u003cbr\u003e—\u003cb\u003eKate Crawford, author of \u003ci\u003eAtlas of AI\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/b\u003eFlorian Jaton is a Postdoctoral Researcher at the STS Lab at the University of Lausanne.","brand":"The MIT Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46299723956453,"sku":"NP9780262542142","price":60.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780262542142.jpg?v=1767738825","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/the-constitution-of-algorithms-isbn-9780262542142","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}