Simple explanations of complex ideas for your future genius!Written by experts, Quantum Computing for Babies is a colorfully simple introduction to the magical world of quantum computers. Babies (and
In view of the growing presence and popularity of multicore and manycore processors, accelerators, and coprocessors, as well as clusters using such computing devices, the development of efficient para
This book provides a step-by-step guide to teaching computing at secondary level. It offers an entire framework for planning and delivering the curriculum and shows you how to create an environment in
This book provides a step-by-step guide to teaching computing at secondary level. It offers an entire framework for planning and delivering the curriculum and shows you how to create an environment in
For courses in Python ProgrammingIntroduces Python programming with an emphasis on problem-solvingNow in its Third Edition, Practice of Computing Using Python continues to introduce both majors and no
Organized into four main sections, this book will present state-of-the-art research, methodologies, and applications of high performance computing for big data applications. It will cover fundamental
This book constitutes the proceedings of the 19th International Workshop on Computer Algebra in Scientific Computing, CASC 2017, held in Beijing, China, in September 2017. The 28 full papers presente
This book introduces context-aware computing, providing definitions, categories, characteristics, and context awareness itself and discussing its applications with a particular focus on smart learning
Localization and tracking are key functionalities in ubiquitous computing systems and techniques. In recent years a very high variety of approaches, sensors and techniques for indoor and GPS-denied en
This book presents the first comprehensive overview of various verifiable computing techniques, which allow the computation of a function on outsourced data to be delegated to a server. It provides a
“This book continues the very high standard we have come to expect from ServiceTech Press. The book provides well-explained vendor-agnostic patterns to the challenges of providing or using cloud solut
The book provides readers with a snapshot of the state of the art in the field of nature-inspired computing and its application in optimization. The approach is mainly practice-oriented: each bio-insp
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The availability of many-core computing platforms enables a wide variety of technical solutions for systems across the embedded, high-performance and cloud computing domains. However, large scale many
This book provides a comprehensive introduction to nature-inspired computing, with an emphasis on applications to real-life engineering problems. The book focuses on physics and chemistry-based algori
This general book on high-performance computing in finance is academically and pragmatically relevant as it is built around real-life challenges. The text covers the newest techniques such as automati
Computers as Components: Principles of Embedded Computing System Design, Fourth Edition, continues to focus on foundational content in embedded systems technology and design while introducing new cont
This work serves as a thorough, yet simple-to-read, reference on various aspects of cloud computing security. The text opens with an introduction to the general concepts of cloud computing necessary t
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Social Computing and Social Media, SCSM 2015, held as part of the 18th International Conference on Human-Computer
Fun and Software offers the untold story of fun as constitutive of the culture and aesthetics of computing. Fun in computing is a mode of thinking, making and experiencing. It invokes and convolutes t
Pervasive Computing: Next Generation Platforms for Intelligent Data Collection presents current advances and state-of-the-art work on methods, techniques, and algorithms designed to support pervasive
This book presents a variety of applied mathematics topics with an emphasis on problem solving techniques using MATLAB. Numerous examples are presented as illustrations of basic concepts and problem s
This book provides a history of the efforts of the US National Science Foundation to broaden participation in computing. The book briefly discusses the early history of the NSF's involvement with educ
Explore the exhilarating world of information technology. This title builds an essential foundation for computing study for children aged 7-9 by exploring the computer devices we use every day and exp
How are you learning about the most important, essential, and current concepts of information technology?Computing Essentials 2017 Complete allows you to Make IT Work for You by presenting the effect
There is ample literature detailing lack of interest girls particularly in their later teen years show in computing generally and the subsequent decline in the number of women entering the IT workforc
This volume offers very selected papers from the 2014 conference of the “International Association for Computing and Philosophy” (IACAP) - a conference tradition of 28 years. The theme of the papers i
This book explores the internet and mobile ecosystems which are powered by cloud computing – an essential, if not indispensable, part of our everyday lives. Billions of users world-wide use this techn
This richly illustrated textbook explores the amazing interaction between combinatorics, geometry, number theory, and analysis which arises in the interplay between polyhedra and lattices. Highly acce
This book presents a detailed review of high-performance computing infrastructures for next-generation big data and fast data analytics. Features: includes case studies and learning activities through
Get started with Python for data analysis and numerical computing in the Jupyter notebookAbout This BookLearn the basics of Python in the Jupyter NotebookAnalyze and visualize data with pandas, NumPy,
This volume of Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing contains accepted papers presented at ICGEC 2015, the 9th International Conference on Genetic and Evolutionary Computing. The conference th
The overall structure of this new edition is three-tier: Part I presents the basics, Part II is concerned with methodological issues, and Part III discusses advanced topics. In the second edition the
Modern society requires a specialized, persistent approach to IT service delivery. Cloud computing offers the most logical answer through a highly dynamic and virtualized resource made available by an
Boshkoska presents a collection of academic articles and scholarly papers focused on solving social science challenges using computing methods. The contributions are devoted to extending synergy model
The slime mould Physarum polycephalum is a large cell visible by the unaided eye. It behaves as an intelligent nonlinear spatially extended active medium encapsulated in an elastic membrane. The cell
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