A laboratory study that investigates how algorithms come into existence. Algorithms--often associated with the terms big data, machine learning, orartificial intelligence--underlie the technologies we use every day, anddisputes over the consequences, actual or potential, of new algorithms ariseregularly. In this book, Florian Jaton offers a new way to study computerizedmethods, providing an account of where algorithms come from and how they areconstituted, investigating the practical...