Algorithms to Live By

the long version

All our lives are constrained by limited space and time, limits that give rise to particular set of pronlems. What should we do, or leave undone, in a day or a lifeitme? How much messiness should we accept? What balance of ne activies and familiar favorites is the most fulfilling? These may seem like uniquely human quandaries, but they are not: computers, too, face the same constraints, so computer scientists have been grappling with their version of such issues for decades. And the solutions th