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Quantum Programming Languages: An Introductory Overview. R. RÜDIGER During the first quarter of the 20th century, much research which was later to form the foundations of computer science has been laid down. Quantum theory, being the theory of physical processes at an atomic and subatomic scale, was one of the subjects that was also studied then. However, the influence of quantum concepts in th...

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This volume examines collective bargaining in eight major industries: airlines, automobile manufacturing, health care, hotels and casinos, newspaper publishing, professional sports, telecommunications, and trucking. The book examines how these industries have responded to globalization, increasing management antipathy toward unions and the declining effectiveness of strikes. The authors trace t...

Capsule Reviews Hardware - Oriented Algorithms for Rendering Order - Independent

Hardware-Oriented Algorithms for Rendering OrderIndependent Transparency. M. AMOR, M. BÓO, E. J. PADRÓN AND D. BARTZ This paper starts from the goal of increasing visual realism in scenes with high depth complexity. This goal requires sorting algorithms that render transparent objects properly into a scene (after having rendered opaque objects). In real time applications, the available hardware...

Capsule Reviews Representation of Web Data in a Web Warehouse

When, last summer, a meeting of editorial board members of The Computer Journal was proposed for January 2003, one of those planning to attend was Roger Needham. His participation was not to be. Following a struggle with cancer, Roger Needham passed away on 28 February 2003. Roger was one of les grands of computer science. His work ranged over an incredibly wide swathe of computer science. His ...

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