The Constitution of Algorithms

Ground-Truthing, Programming, Formulating

Florian Jaton, Geoffrey C. Bowker

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MIT Press
03 August 2021

Computing: general

Series: Inside Technology

A laboratory study that investigates how algorithms come into existence.

A laboratory study that investigates how algorithms come into existence.

Algorithms--often associated with the terms big data, machine learning, or artificial intelligence--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.

By: Florian Jaton, Geoffrey C. Bowker
Imprint: MIT Press
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm,
Weight: 368g
ISBN: 9780262542142
ISBN 10: 0262542145
Series: Inside Technology
Pages: 400
Publication Date: 03 August 2021
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Florian Jaton is a Postdoctoral Researcher at the STS Lab at the University of Lausanne.

Reviews for The Constitution of Algorithms: Ground-Truthing, Programming, Formulating

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. -TechTalks