What Algorithms Want – Imagination in the Age of Computing (The MIT Press) Review - Ed Finn's What Algorithms Want shows us just how powerful computer programs and their helpers actually are, and the book needs no recourse to science fiction. -Los Angeles Review of Books 				    	 					 About the Author Ed Finn is Founding Director of the Center for Science and the Imagination at Arizona State University, where he is also Assistant Professor with a joint appointment in the School of Arts, Media, and Engineering and the Department of English.