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  title info:
    title: Adventures in Computer Science
    sub title: From Classical Bits to Quantum Bits
  name:
    name part: Moret-Bonillo, Vicente.
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: gw
    date issued: 2017
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: electronic resource
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: XIII, 198 p. 55 illus., 21 illus. in color. online resource.
  abstract: The main focus of this textbook is the basic unit of information and the way in which our understanding of this has evolved over time. In particular the author covers concepts related to information, classical computing, logic, reversible computing, quantum mechanics, quantum computing, thermodynamics and some artificial intelligence and biology, all approached from the viewpoint of computer sciences. The book begins by asking the following nontrivial question: what is a bit? The author then discusses logic, logic gates, reversible computing and reversible architectures, and the concept of disorder. He then tries to establish the relationship between three essential questions that justify quantum approaches in computer sciences: the energy required to perform a real-life computation, the size of current processors, and the reversibility of quantum operations. Based on these concepts, the author establishes the conditions that justify the use of quantum techniques for certain kinds of computational tasks, and he uses formal descriptions and formal argumentations to introduce key quantum mechanical concepts and approaches. The rest of the book is formally different, focusing on practical issues, including a discussion of remarkable quantum algorithms in a treatment based on quantum circuit theory. The book is valuable for graduate students in computer science, and students of other disciplines who are engaged with physical models of information and computing.
  table of contents: The Universe of Binary Numbers -- Back and Forth Computing -- Reversible Architectures -- The Principles of Quantum Mechanics -- Introducing Quantum Computing -- Feynman's Quantum Computer Machine -- Some Quantum Algorithms -- Concluding Remarks -- App. A: Mathematical Background -- App. B: Glossary of Terms Used in the Book.
  note: by Vicente Moret-Bonillo.
  subject:
    topic: Computer science
  subject:
    topic: Computers
  subject:
    topic: Artificial intelligence
  subject:
    topic: Quantum computers
  subject:
    topic: Quantum physics
  subject:
    topic: Computer Science
  subject:
    topic: Theory of Computation
  subject:
    topic: Quantum Computing
  subject:
    topic: Quantum Physics
  subject:
    topic: Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics)
  classification: QA75.5-76.95
  classification: 004.0151
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    title info:
      title: Springer eBooks
  identifier: 9783319648071
  identifier: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-64807-1
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