Informatics
10 Years Back. 10 Years Ahead
Published on 7. February 2001
Book
Paperback/Softback
IX, 372 pages
978-3-540-41635-7 (ISBN)
Description
Informatics - 10 Years Back, 10 Years Ahead
presents a unique collection of expository papers on major current issues in the field of computer science and information technology. The 26 contributions written by leading researchers on personal invitation assess the state of the art of the field by looking back over the past decade, presenting important results, identifying relevant open problems, and developing visions for the decade to come.
This book marks two remarkable and festive moments: the 10th anniversary of the International Research and Conference Center for Computer Science in Dagstuhl, Germany and the 2000th volume published in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science series.
This book marks two remarkable and festive moments: the 10th anniversary of the International Research and Conference Center for Computer Science in Dagstuhl, Germany and the 2000th volume published in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science series.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Berlin
Germany
Publishing group
Springer Berlin
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Research
Illustrations
IX, 372 p.
Dimensions
Height: 235 mm
Width: 155 mm
Thickness: 21 mm
Weight
581 gr
ISBN-13
978-3-540-41635-7 (9783540416357)
DOI
10.1007/3-540-44577-3
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E-Book
06/2003
Springer
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Person
The authors are among the established experts on compiler construction, with decades of related teaching experience. Prof. Dr. Reinhard Wilhelm is the head of the Compiler Design Lab of the Universität des Saarlandes, and his main research interests include compiler construction; Prof. Dr. Helmut Seidl heads the Institut für Informatik of the Technische Universität München, and his main research interests include automatic program analysis and the design and implementation of programming languages; Dr. Sebastian Hack is a Junior Professor in the Computer Science Programming Group of the Universität des Saarlandes, and his main research areas include compilers and code generation.
Content
The Web.- The Web in 2010: Challenges and Opportunities for Database Research.- Challenges in Ubiquitous Data Management.- Programmable Networks.- Multilateral Security: Enabling Technologies and Their Evaluation.- Cryptography 2000±10.- A Language-Based Approach to Security.- Software.- Software Engineering in the Years 2000 Minus and Plus Ten.- Thinking Tools for the Future of Computing Science.- Orientations in Verification Engineering of Avionics Software.- Abstract Interpretation Based Formal Methods and Future Challenges.- Extended Static Checking: A Ten-Year Perspective.- Progress on the State Explosion Problem in Model Checking.- A Political Issue: Open Source?.- From Research Software to Open Source.- Architecture.- Microprocessors - 10 Years Back, 10 Years Ahead.- The Quantum Computing Challenge.- Parallel Computation: MM +/- X.- Theory.- Computational Complexity and Mathematical Proofs.- Logic for Computer Science: The Engineering Challenge.- From Algorithm to Program to Software Library.- Artificial Intelligence.- Pervasive Speech and Language Technology.- Embodied Artificial Intelligence 10 Years Back, 10 Years Forward.- Graphics and Vision.- Scientific Visualization - Methods and Applications -.- Computer Vision: Past and Future.- Immersion into Other Disciplines.- Computational Biology at the Beginning of the Post-genomic Era.- Computer Science in Physics.