Relative beginners

Beginners Need Powerful Systems

Computing systems are often very hard for most people to approach. To some extent this is because of the inherent difficulty of giving machines the ability to communicate in ways which people find natural: not enough is understood about speech and how it is decoded, about the structure and functions of natural languages, about how the average person thinks about problems and processes. However ...

Quantum computing for beginners

The paper introduces the basic concepts and principles behind quantum computing and examines in detail Shor’s quantum algorithm for factoring very large numbers. Some basic methodological principles and guidelines for constructing quantum algorithms are stated. The aim is not to provide a formal exposition of quantum computing but to identify its novelty and potential use in tackling NP-hard pr...

Biotechnology for Beginners

NS Simulator for Beginners

NS-2 is an open-source discrete event network simulator which is widely used by both the research community as well as by the people involved in the standardization protocols of IETF. The goal of this book is twofold: on one hand to learn how to use the NS-2 simulator, and on the other hand, to become acquainted with and to understand the operation of some of the simulated objects using NS-2 si...

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