Bitwise: a life in code

✍ Scribed by Auerbach, David B

• Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
• Year: 2019
• Tongue: en-US
• Weight: 3 MB
• Edition: First Vintage book edition
• Category: Fiction
• City: United States.
• ISBN: 1101972149

✦ Synopsis

An exhilarating crossover between memoir and argument demonstrating how computers and algorithms shape our understanding of the world and who we are.
As we engineer ever-more intricate algorithms to translate our experiences and narrow the gap that divides us from the machine, we willingly rub out our nuances and our idiosyncrasies--precisely that which makes us human. Bitwise is David Auerbach's thoughtful ode to the computer codes and languages that captured his imagination as a child, and a reflection of how he's both experienced and written the algorithms that have come to taxonomize human speech, knowledge, and behavior -- and compel us to do the same. With a philosopher's sense of inquiry and an engineer's eye, Auerbach recounts his childhood spent drawing ferns with the programming language Logo on the Apple IIe, his adventures in early text-based video games, his schooling as an engineer, and his contributions to instant messaging technology...

✦ Subjects

Biographies