Introduction to DNA Computing

Introduction to Computing

ion. Abstraction is a way of hiding details by giving things names. Weuse abstraction to manage complexity. Good abstractions hide unnecessarydetails so they can be used to build complex systems without needing to un-derstand all the details of the abstraction at once. We introduce proceduralabstraction in Chapter 4, data abstraction in Chapter 5, the digital abstrac-tion in...

Introduction to Parallel Computing

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Introduction to Parallel Computing

Introduction to Cloud Computing

Introduction to Ubiquitous Computing

The present chapter is intended as a light-weight introduction to Ubiquitous Computing as a whole, in preparation for the more specific book parts and chapters that cover selected aspects. This chapter thus assumes the preface of this book to be prior knowledge. In the following, a brief history of Ubiquitous Computing (UC) is given first, concentrating on selected facts considered as necessary...