Saving shipwrecked sailors with Bayes' rule
Attributing authorship with stylometry
Summarizing speeches with natural language processing
Sending super-secret messages with a book cipher
Winning the moon race with Apollo 8
Selecting Martian landing sites
Detecting distant exoplanets
Identifying friend or foe
Restricting access with face recognition
Creating an interactive zombie escape map
Are we living in a computer simulation?
Appendix: Practice project solutions.
