Bitwise : (Record no. 743872)
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| fixed length control field | 02522cam a2200289 i 4500 |
| 005 - DATE AND TIME OF LATEST TRANSACTION | |
| control field | 20250521143736.0 |
| 008 - FIXED-LENGTH DATA ELEMENTS--GENERAL INFORMATION | |
| fixed length control field | 180112t20182018nyu b 001 0deng |
| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER | |
| International Standard Book Number | 9781101871294 |
| 040 ## - CATALOGING SOURCE | |
| Transcribing agency | SDC |
| 084 ## - COLON CLASSIFICATION NUMBER | |
| Classification number | R:(D6,8(B)) Q8 LR |
| 100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Auerbach, David |
| Fuller form of name | (David B.), |
| Relator term | author. |
| 9 (RLIN) | 809214 |
| 245 10 - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | Bitwise : |
| Remainder of title | a life in code / |
| 250 ## - EDITION STATEMENT | |
| Edition statement | First edition. |
| 264 #1 - PRODUCTION, PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, MANUFACTURE, AND COPYRIGHT NOTICE | |
| Place of production, publication, distribution, manufacture | New York : |
| Name of producer, publisher, distributor, manufacturer | Pantheon Books, |
| Date of production, publication, distribution, manufacture, or copyright notice | 2018. |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Extent | ix, 290 pages : |
| Other physical details | illustrations ; |
| 337 ## - MEDIA TYPE | |
| Media type term | unmediated |
| Media type code | n |
| Source | rdamedia |
| 338 ## - CARRIER TYPE | |
| Carrier type term | volume |
| Carrier type code | nc |
| Source | rdacarrier |
| 504 ## - BIBLIOGRAPHY, ETC. NOTE | |
| Bibliography, etc. note | Includes bibliographical references (pages 263-278) and index. |
| 505 0# - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE | |
| Formatted contents note | Logo and love -- Chat wars -- Binaries -- Interlude: Foreign tongues -- Naming of parts -- Self-approximations -- Games computers play -- Interlude: Adventures with text -- Big data -- Programming my child -- Big human -- Epilogue: The reduction of language, the flattening of life. |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. | |
| Summary, etc. | 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 developed for Microsoft and then to software built to sift through Google's data stores. His unsettling conclusion--that algorithms are standardizing and coarsening our own lives--is inescapable."-- |
| Assigning source | Provided by publisher. |
| 600 10 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Auerbach, David |
| Fuller form of name | (David B.) |
| General subdivision | Philosophy. |
| 9 (RLIN) | 809215 |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name entry element | Computer science |
| General subdivision | Philosophy. |
| 9 (RLIN) | 809216 |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name entry element | Computer science |
| General subdivision | Social aspects. |
| 9 (RLIN) | 809217 |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name entry element | Computer scientists |
| Geographic subdivision | United States |
| Form subdivision | Biography. |
| 9 (RLIN) | 809218 |
| 942 ## - ADDED ENTRY ELEMENTS (KOHA) | |
| Source of classification or shelving scheme | Colon Classification (CC) |
| Koha item type | General Books |
| Suppress in OPAC | No |
| Withdrawn status | Lost status | Source of classification or shelving scheme | Damaged status | Not for loan | Home library | Current library | Date acquired | Source of acquisition | Total Checkouts | Full call number | Barcode | Date last seen | Date last checked out | Price effective from | Koha item type |
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| Colon Classification (CC) | South Campus Library | South Campus Library | 2022-09-28 | 207, 28/02/2019, Classic Book Service | 1 | R:(D6,8(B)) Q8 LR | SC1624869 | 2025-05-13 | 2025-01-08 | 2022-09-28 | General Books |