Conversations About Challenges in Computing

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Bruaset, Are Magnus. (Editor), Tveito, Aslak. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: Heidelberg : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2013.
• Subjects: Mathematics.; Computer network architectures.; Computer science.; Differential equations, partial.; Physiology > Mathematics.; Computational Science and Engineering.; Partial Differential Equations.; Mathematical Modeling and Industrial Mathematics.; Physiological, Cellular and Medical Topics.; Computer Systems Organization and Communication Networks.; User Interfaces and Human Computer Interaction.
• Online Access: https://ezaccess.library.uitm.edu.my/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-00209-5

This text sheds light on how mathematical models and computing can help understanding and prediction of complicated physical processes; how communication networks should be designed and implemented to meet the increasingly challenging requirements from users; and how modern engineering principles ca...

Table of Contents:

• Part I: Communications Systems: 1 The Nature of the Beast: An interview with Olav Lysne
• 2 Igniting the New Internet: An interview with Keith Marzullo
• 3 The Internet of Things: An interview with Heinrich St<U+00fc>ttgen
• Part II: Computational Science: 4 The Mathematics of the Mind: An interview with Hans Petter Langtangen
• 5 Solving Puzzle Earth by Adaptive Mesh Refinement: An interview with Carsten Burstedde
• 6 Computational Inverse Problems Can Drive a Big Data Revolution: An interview with Omar Ghattas.- 7 Towards the <U+0018>Google Heart<U+0019>: An interview with Natalia Trayanova
• 8 As Simple as Possible, but Not Simpler: An interview with Alfio Quarteroni
• Part III: Software Engineering
• 9 A Caring Critic: An interview with Magne Jr̜gensen
• 10 Through the Looking Glass into Digital Space: An interview with Paola Inverardi
• 11 Harmonizing the Babel of Voices: An interview with Martin Shepperd
• 12 Mediating between Man and Machine: An interview with Bashar Nuseibeh. .