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Brief History and Overview of the Main Ideas for Quantum Computing
The idea of quantum computing was put forward 40 years ago. It became a subject of great excitement after 1994, when Peter Shor proposed his fameous...
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Early Views of Computing
The public did not learn about the existence of computers until a year after the end of World War II and even then, initially just in the United...
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How People View Computing Today
Since humans now have considerable experience with many types of computing they have opinions about this technology, ranging from their importance...
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What Is Computing?
Seventy-five years ago answering this question was easy. A Hungarian mathematician named John von Neumann laid it out in a short report in the...
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A Short History of the AI
In ancient language, an automaton is an apparatus that can act independently (autonomously). According to ancient understanding, self-activity...
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The Quest for Energy-Aware Computing: Confessions of an Accidental Engineer
As a professor of electrical and computer engineering, I consider myself lucky and privileged to educate wonderful undergraduate students, do cutting...
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A Concise History of Computing
This chapter presents a brief history of computing including a discussion of the first digital computers, the first commercial computers, the SAGE...
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Augmented Reality: We’ll All Be Experts Now
Augmented reality uses a personal display, up close to the user, to show him or her information, text, drawings, 3D objects, generated locally or...
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Computer Control of a Telescope
Using a computer to control an amateur telescope adds functionality that wasn’t possible previously and turns a hobby telescope into one capable of...
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A Creative Path Towards Becoming Female Engineer Enabling the Next Opportunities in Computing
This chapter shows my creative journey to becoming a female engineer working on the cutting edge of computation and neuromorphic techniques. This...
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How Did We Get Here?
People began using computers during World War II to decipher German military communications codes, which a generation of historians in the late 1970s...
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Living with Computers The Digital World of Today and Tomorrow
The computing technology on which we are now so dependent has risen to its position of ascendency so rapidly that few of us have had the opportunity...
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World of Computing A Primer Companion for the Digital Age
This engaging work provides a concise introduction to the exciting world of computing, encompassing the theory, technology, history, and societal...
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Seeing What We Want to See: The Psychology of the Ashen Light
The fabled “canals” of Mars (Chap. 1 ), the claim for whose existence is traditionally ascribed to a single...
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Foundations of Computing
This chapter two discusses the foundations of computing, including the binary number system and the step reckoner calculating machine, which were...
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The Future of the Blockchain
History is littered with predictions that have proved to be spectacularly wrong. In 1876, William Orton, President of Western Union said ‘This...
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How We Might See the End of the Information Age
Let’s head straight to the core issue—artificial intelligence, computing that does human-like thinking and action, makes decisions, and ultimately is...
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Can a Machine Become Self-Aware? (The Sciences of Computing and Cognition)
One of the major characters in the television series Star Trek: The Next Generation is the android Commander Data (played by Brent Spiner). Created...
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The Pillars of Physics
In the following, we will take a closer look at the confirmed theories of physics, i.e. those theories whose validity within a certain area – their...
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Introduction
Augmented reality will do more than just give us directions, and visualizations of products. In time, Augmented Reality will integrate with body...