Background: Computers and Internet  play an ever- increasing and important role in medical education.This research was performed to determine the rate of knowledge, attitude, and performance of the students of Birjand University of Medical Science in the case of  computer and Internet use. Methods:  This descriptive – analytical study was performed on 425 students of Birjand University of Medic...

Computational dynamic programming, while of some use for situations typically encountered in industrial and systems engineering, has proved to be of much greater significance in many areas of computer science. We review some of these applications here.

In this paper, we study the security of the Encrypt-MaskDecrypt mode of operation, also called EMD, which was recently proposed for applications such as disk-sector encryption. The EMD mode transforms an ordinary block cipher operating on n–bit blocks into a tweakable block cipher operating on large blocks of size nm bits. We first show that EMD is not a secure tweakable block cipher and then d...

Has India realized its potential for high-caliber computer science research as indicated by (a) its having one of the largest technical manpower in the world, (b) its software industry's tremendous growth in the recent past, and (c) the demand in the West for students from its top science and technology educational institutions? This paper addresses this question, in the context of Computer Sci...

Detailed information on the material covered during the semester, including relevant references to the literature, will be regularly given here. Our two main textbooks are listed below. Both of those textbooks are available for free download via the University of Vienna Library. The book of Herbert Enderton, Computability theory. An introduction to recursion theory , gives a detailed introducti...

When given several problems to solve in some domain, a standard reinforcement learner learns an optimal policy from scratch for each problem. If the domain has particular characteristics that are goal and problem independent, the learner might be able to take advantage of previously solved problems. Unfortunately, it is generally infeasible to directly apply a learned policy to new problems. Th...