The Great Algoritmi
Sep. 28th, 2007 10:40 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
Short NYT piece on the history of the algorithm, from Muhammad ibn Musa al-Khwarizmi to Amazon’s Mechanical Turk–”a part man, part machine … oracle for our times.”
Cross-posted from Old is the New New. Comments welcome.