Ci vuole un albero per salvare le città ormai assediate dall'inquinamento, dal cemento, dal calore, dagli insetti, dal rumore. Un albero sembra una cosa da poco, una soluzione semplice, da fiaba, per gente un po' ingenua e premoderna che non ama la tecnologia. Invece, dice Francis Hallé, non esiste nessuna tecnologia che sia complessa e perfetta come quella di un albero. Sono esseri viventi che non hanno la possibilità di muoversi e dunque hanno sviluppato strategie estremamente sofisticate per sopravvivere. Vivono a lungo, in modo pacifico, e possono aiutarci a stare meglio: la loro ombra rinfresca le nostre estati estive; aumentano l'umidità dell'aria e dunque abbassano la temperatura; assorbono l'anidride carbonica e le polveri sottili, e molte altre cose ancora. Dobbiamo imparare a rispettarli e ad amarli, pensare a loro come nostri amici e compagni, cittadini del mondo, silenziosi e saggi guardiani delle nostre vite.

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Data management and analysis is one of the fastest growing and most challenging areas of research and development in both academia and industry. Numerous types of applications and services have been studied and re-examined in this field resulting in this edited volume which includes chapters on effective approaches for dealing with the inherent complexity within data management and analysis. This edited volume contains practical case studies, and will appeal to students, researchers and professionals working in data management and analysis in the business, education, healthcare, and bioinformatics areas.

This book covers various aspects of optimization in design and testing of Network-on-Chip (NoC) based multicore systems. It gives a complete account of the state-of-the-art and emerging techniques for near optimal mapping and test scheduling for NoC-based multicores.

In the words of the great poet Senghor, Cedric Villani makes the bold claim that Mathematics is the Poetry of Science. Perhaps paradoxical to some, both disciplines are concerned with describing the world around us, understanding its parts, and using this knowledge to create something profound.

This book addresses the automatic sizing and layout of analog integrated circuits (ICs) using deep learning (DL) and artificial neural networks (ANN). It explores an innovative approach to automatic circuit sizing where ANNs learn patterns from previously optimized design solutions. In opposition to classical optimization-based sizing strategies, where computational intelligence techniques are used to iterate over the map from devices’ sizes to circuits’ performances provided by design equations or circuit simulations, ANNs are shown to be capable of solving analog IC sizing as a direct map from specifications to the devices’ sizes.

The ideas at the root of quantum theory remain stubbornly, famously bizarre: a solid world reduced to puffs of probability; particles that tunnel through walls; cats suspended in zombielike states, neither alive nor dead; and twinned particles that share entangled fates. For more than a century, physicists have grappled with these conceptual uncertainties while enmeshed in the larger uncertainties of the social and political worlds around them, a time pocked by the rise of fascism, cataclysmic world wars, and a new nuclear age.

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A youth movement is reenergizing global environmental activism. The "climate generation"—late millennials and iGen, or Generation Z—is demanding that policy makers and government leaders take immediate action to address the dire outcomes predicted by climate science. Those inheriting our planet's environmental problems expect to encounter challenges, but they may not have the skills to grapple with the feelings of powerlessness and despair that may arise when they confront this seemingly intractable situation.