Download or read book L Hyperpuissance de l informatique written by Gérard Berry and published by Odile Jacob. This book was released on 2017-10-18 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ce n’est que récemment que l’on a commencé à mesurer à quel point l’informatique est en passe de transformer notre société, et même de la bouleverser de fond en comble. C’est à décrire et à analyser les fondements de l’hyperpuissance de l’informatique que Gérard Berry se consacre dans ce livre qui fera date. Il montre en effet de façon non technique comment la science et la technologie informatiques mettent l’information au cœur de l’action, qu’elle soit produite par les hommes ou par les machines. Algorithmes, données, machines et réseaux conduisent surtout à un nouveau schéma mental bien différent de celui des siècles précédents, qui confère un pouvoir étonnant à ceux qui le comprennent et l’organisent. Pour donner concrètement à comprendre le mode de pensée inhérent à l’informatique, Gérard Berry passe en revue cinq domaines de transformations massives : les télécommunications, Internet, la photographie et la cartographie, l’informatisation de la médecine, et celle en cours de toutes les sciences. Il analyse ensuite en détail deux dangers de l’informatique, les bugs et les trous de sécurité, qui peuvent parfois transformer des systèmes informatisés en dangers publics, et montre comment la science moderne permet de mieux contrôler ces dangers. Enfin, l’auteur donne sa vision de l’évolution de l’informatique, bien loin des fantasmes trop souvent partagés. Pour la première fois, un livre qui explique tout de l’informatique, de son monde, ses fondements, ses applications, et la révolution qu’elle représente. Gérard Berry est professeur au Collège de France où il dirige la chaire Algorithmes, machines et langages. Il est médaille d’or du CNRS.
Download or read book Inside the World of Computing written by Jean-Loic Delhaye and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2021-03-31 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Computers and the Internet are an undeniable and inextricable part of our daily lives. This book is for those who wish to better understand how this came to be. It explores the technological bases of computers, networks, software and data management, leading to the development of four Âpillars on which the essential applications that have a strong impact on individuals and society are based: embedded systems, Artificial Intelligence, the Internet, image processing and vision. We will travel to the heart of major application areas: robotics, virtual reality, health, mobility, energy, the factory of the future, not forgetting the major questions that this Âdigitization can raise. This book is the authorÂs testimony after fifty years spent in environments that are very open to new technologies. It offers perspectives on the evolution of the digital world that we live in.
Download or read book New Directions in European Private Law written by Takis Tridimas and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2021-05-20 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book brings together leading scholars and practitioners, to explore contemporary challenges in the field of European private law, identify problems, and propose solutions. The first section reassesses the existing theoretical framework and traditional legal scholarship on which European private law has developed. The book then goes on to examine important and practical topics of geo-blocking and standardisation in the context of recent legislative developments and the CJEU case law. The third section assesses the challenging subject of adequate regulation of online platforms and sharing economy that has been continuously addressed in the recent years by European private law. A fourth section deals with the regulatory challenges brought by an increasing development of artificial intelligence and blockchain technology and the question of liability. The final section examines recent European legislative developments in the area of digital goods and digital content and identifies potential future policy directions in which the European private law may develop in the future.
Download or read book Educating for a New Future Making Sense of Technology Enhanced Learning Adoption written by Isabel Hilliger and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2022-09-05 with total page 670 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book constitutes the proceedings of the 17th European Conference on Technology Enhanced Learning, EC-TEL 2022, held in Toulouse, France, in September 2022. The 30 research papers and 31 demo and poster papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 109 submissions. Chapter “Learners’ Strategies in Interactive Sorting Tasks” is available open access under a CC BY 4.0 license.
Download or read book Futures written by Carine Dartiguepeyrou and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2023-07-12 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the same way as there are many futures, not just one, there are many ways to conceive and practice foresight. The challenge of the great turning point of our civilization is to free ourselves from our prejudices in order to imagine and build desirable futures. The process is, by nature, ethical and prospective. In a complex, uncertain and geopolitically transforming world, we must be open to the diversity of cultures and the different perceptions of the future. This requires us to reflect on the purpose and means of our societies. Futures proposes different cultural and ethical views on civilizational transformation by offering a rare, transnational panorama of the visions of the future in a European, American and Chinese context. Through numerous examples, this book illustrates how foresight is practiced and what this can achieve in strategic terms.
Download or read book Silicon From Sand to Chips Volume 2 written by Alain Vignes and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2024-06-04 with total page 175 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Silicon is the material of the digital revolution, of solar energy and of digital photography, which has revolutionized both astronomy and medical imaging. It is also the material of microelectromechanical systems (MEMS), indispensable components of smart objects. The discovery of the electronic and optoelectronic properties of germanium and silicon during the Second World War, followed by the invention of the transistor, ushered in the digital age. Although the first transistors were made from germanium, silicon eventually became the preferred material for these technologies. Silicon, From Sand to Chips 2 traces the history of the discoveries, inventions and developments in basic components and chips that these two materials enabled one after the other. The book is divided into two volumes and this second volume is devoted to microelectronic and optoelectronic chips, solar cells and MEMS.
Download or read book Silicon From Sand to Chips Volume 1 written by Alain Vignes and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2024-07-11 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Silicon is the material of the digital revolution, of solar energy and of digital photography, which has revolutionized both astronomy and medical imaging. It is also the material of microelectromechanical systems (MEMS), indispensable components of smart objects. The discovery of the electronic and optoelectronic properties of germanium and silicon during the Second World War, followed by the invention of the transistor, ushered in the digital age. Although the first transistors were made from germanium, silicon eventually became the preferred material for these technologies. Silicon, From Sand to Chips 1 traces the history of the discoveries, inventions and developments in basic components and chips that these two materials enabled one after the other. The book is divided into two volumes and this first volume is devoted to basic microelectronic components.
Download or read book The Digital Era 1 written by Jean-Pierre Chamoux and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2018-06-19 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For 200 years, industry mastered iron, fire, strength and energy. Today, electronics shapes our everyday objects, integrating chips: computers, phones, keys, games, household appliances, etc. Data, software and calculation frame the conduct of humankind, and everything is translated into data. The first volume in this series analyzes the stakes of the massive data which accumulate on the Internet, keeping track of our actions and gestures, the state of the world and our knowledge.
Download or read book 4D Printing Volume 2 written by Frederic Demoly and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2022-09-14 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Who hasn’t dreamed of seeing matter transformed in a way that suits you? This is the goal of 4D printing, using materials that can change in terms of shape and property under the effect of energy stimulation. From the description of the actions and actuators, the authors show the weaknesses that limit the industrialization of 4D printing processes; these are the modes of energy stimulation. To prepare for the future, two chapters are introduced: “Material-Process Duality in Industrial 4D Printing” and “How to Approach 4D Printing in Design”. If the capture and reuse of 4D printing knowledge is necessary for this objective, the conclusion leaves the existing myth around the 4D printing theme and proposes a “draft” roadmap that should be the subject of reflection and scientific debate on a concept that is still immature, but full of promise.
Download or read book Digital Medicine written by Arthur André and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-12-13 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides an up to date user friendly resource on the emerging field of digital medicine and its present and potential future role in modern healthcare. Chapters are written by a specialist on each area in an easy to read format, which broadly covers the potential of digital medicine in epidemiology, precision medicine and surgery. Chapters focus on aspects of telemedicine, the applications of big data, artificial intelligence, blockchain, regenerative medicine, legal aspects and business models. Furthermore, guidance is given on medical ethics and how to manage doctor patient relationships in the modern age. Digital Medicine comprehensively reviews the emerging field of digital medicine in modern healthcare and is therefore a critical resource for physicians and medical trainees who are looking for comprehensive resource on digital medicine and its potential role in modern healthcare.
Download or read book The Cambridge Handbook of Smart Contracts Blockchain Technology and Digital Platforms written by Larry A. DiMatteo and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2019-10-31 with total page 500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The product of a unique collaboration between academic scholars, legal practitioners, and technology experts, this Handbook is the first of its kind to analyze the ongoing evolution of smart contracts, based upon blockchain technology, from the perspective of existing legal frameworks - namely, contract law. The book's coverage ranges across many areas of smart contracts and electronic or digital platforms to illuminate the impact of new, and often disruptive, technologies on the law. With a mix of scholarly commentary and practical application, chapter authors provide expert insights on the core issues involving the use of smart contracts, concluding that smart contracts cannot supplant contract law and the courts, but leaving open the question of whether there is a need for specialized regulations to prevent abuse. This book should be read by anyone interested in the disruptive effect of new technologies on the law generally, and contract law in particular.
Download or read book French Defence Policy Since the End of the Cold War written by Alice Pannier and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2023-05 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book describes the evolution of French defence policy since the end of the Cold War.
Download or read book Synchronous Programming of Reactive Systems written by Nicolas Halbwachs and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 1992-12-31 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book will attempt to give a first synthesis of recent works con cerning reactive system design. The term "reactive system" has been introduced in order to at'oid the ambiguities often associated with by the term "real-time system," which, although best known and more sugges tive, has been given so many different meanings that it is almost in evitably misunderstood. Industrial process control systems, transporta tion control and supervision systems, signal-processing systems, are ex amples of the systems we have in mind. Although these systems are more and more computerized, it is sur prising to notice that the problem of time in computer science has been studied only recently by "pure" computer scientists. Until the early 1980s, time problems were regarded as the concern of performance evalu ation, or of some (unjustly scorned) "industrial computer engineering," or, at best, of operating systems. A second surprising fact, in contrast, is the growth of research con cerning timed systems during the last decade. The handling of time has suddenly become a fundamental goal for most models of concurrency. In particular, Robin Alilner 's pioneering works about synchronous process algebras gave rise to a school of thought adopting the following abstract point of view: As soon as one admits that a system can instantaneously react to events, i. e.
Download or read book Algebraic Methods in Semantics written by M. Nivat and published by CUP Archive. This book was released on 1985 with total page 664 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book, which contains contributions from leading researchers in France, USA and Great Britain, gives detailed accounts of a variety of methods for describing the semantics of programming languages, i.e. for attaching to programs mathematical objects that encompass their meaning. Consideration is given to both denotational semantics, where the meaning of a program is regarded as a function from inputs to outputs, and operational semantics, where the meaning includes the sequence of states or terms generated internally during the computation. The major problems considered include equivalence relations between operational and denotational semantics, rules for obtaining optimal computations (especially for nondeterministic programs), equivalence of programs, meaning-preserving transformations of programs and program proving by assertions. Such problems are discussed for a variety of programming languages and formalisms, and a wealth of mathematical tools is described.
Download or read book Blockchain Regulation and Governance in Europe written by Michèle Finck and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2019 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Finck examines the emergence of blockchains (and other forms of distributed ledger technologies) and the implications for regulation and governance.
Download or read book Dying to be Men written by Will Courtenay and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2011-05-09 with total page 578 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Masculinity has a powerful effect on the health of men and boys. Indeed, many of the behaviors they use to "be men" actually increase their risk of disease, injury, and death. In this book, Dr. Will Courtenay, an internationally recognized expert on men’s health, provides a foundation for understanding this troubling reality. With a comprehensive review of data and literature, he identifies specific gender differences in the health-related attitudes, beliefs, and behaviors of men and boys and the health consequences of these differences. He then describes the powerful social, environmental, institutional, and cultural influences that encourage their unhealthy behaviors and constrain their adoption of healthier ones. In the book’s third section, he more closely examines the health needs of specific populations of men, such as ethnic-minority men, rural men, men in college, and men in prisons. Courtenay also provides four empirical studies conducted with multidisciplinary colleagues that examine the associations between masculinity and men and boys’ health beliefs and practices. Finally, he provides specific strategies and an evidence-based practice guideline for working with men in a variety of settings, as well as a look to the future of men’s health. Medical professionals, social workers, public health professionals, school psychologists, college health professionals, mental health practitioners, academics, and researchers from a broad array of disciplines, and anyone interested in this topic will find it to be an extensively researched and accessible volume.
