{"id":1367,"date":"2013-12-14T22:25:09","date_gmt":"2013-12-14T21:25:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cerezo.name\/blog\/?p=1367"},"modified":"2024-10-14T13:30:39","modified_gmt":"2024-10-14T11:30:39","slug":"computer-science-for-the-coming-information-age","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cerezo.name\/blog\/2013\/12\/14\/computer-science-for-the-coming-information-age\/","title":{"rendered":"Computer Science for the coming Information Age"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Computer science is changing: the amount of data available for processing is growing exponentially, and so must the emphasis towards its handling. Like the 19<sup class=\"ordinal\">th<\/sup> century change in physics from mechanics to statistical mechanics, the new algorithms sacrifice the precision of a unique answer for the fast search of statistical properties. The following draft of a book by Hopcroft and Kannan breaks the path of what most future algorithms manuals may look&nbsp;like:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><iframe src=\"\/\/docs.google.com\/viewer?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.cs.cmu.edu%2F%7Evenkatg%2Fteaching%2FCStheory-infoage%2Fhopcroft-kannan-feb2012.pdf&amp;hl=en_US&amp;embedded=true\" class=\"gde-frame\" style=\"width:100%; height:500px; border: none;\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe>\n<\/p><p class=\"gde-text\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cs.cmu.edu\/~venkatg\/teaching\/CStheory-infoage\/hopcroft-kannan-feb2012.pdf\" class=\"gde-link\">Download (<span class=\"caps\">PDF<\/span>, 1.<span class=\"caps\">83MB<\/span>)<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Heavy on proofs, many topics have been selected for their mathematical elegance, not their pragmatism. On the final version of this much anticipated book, I would love to see more content on hash algorithms, parallel algorithms, graph spanners or a more extensive discussion on Support Vector Machines.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Computer science is changing: the amount of data available for processing is growing exponentially, and so must the emphasis towards its handling. Like the 19<sup class=\"ordinal\">th<\/sup> century change in physics from mechanics to statistical mechanics, the new algorithms sacrifice the precision of a unique answer for the fast search of statistical properties. The following draft&nbsp;of&nbsp;[\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wp_typography_post_enhancements_disabled":false,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cerezo.name\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1367"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cerezo.name\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cerezo.name\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cerezo.name\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cerezo.name\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1367"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/cerezo.name\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1367\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1419,"href":"https:\/\/cerezo.name\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1367\/revisions\/1419"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cerezo.name\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1367"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cerezo.name\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1367"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cerezo.name\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1367"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}