Computing is any goal-oriented activity requiring, benefiting from, or creating computing machinery. It includes the study and experimentation of algorithmic...

concert to perform very large tasks. Fog computing – Distributed computing paradigm that provides data, compute, storage and application services closer...

of information in quantum computing, the qubit (or "quantum bit"), serves the same function as the bit in classical computing. However, unlike a classical...

of the analytical engine's computing unit (the mill) in 1888. He gave a successful demonstration of its use in computing tables in 1906. In his work...

and databases. In the early days of computing, a number of terms for the practitioners of the field of computing were suggested (albeit facetiously) in...

components of a computing platform may be obfuscated under layers of abstraction, the summation of the required components comprise the computing platform....

Church–Turing thesis conjectures that there is no effective model of computing that can compute more mathematical functions than a Turing machine. Computer scientists...

successor. Reversible computing is considered an unconventional approach to computation and is closely linked to quantum computing, where the principles...

Defensive computing is a form of practice for computer users to help reduce the risk of computing problems, by avoiding dangerous computing practices...

parallel computing: bit-level, instruction-level, data, and task parallelism. Parallelism has long been employed in high-performance computing, but has...

Unconventional computing (also known as alternative computing or nonstandard computation) is computing by any of a wide range of new or unusual methods...

Optical computing or photonic computing uses light waves produced by lasers or incoherent sources for data processing, data storage or data communication...

common goal for their work. The terms "concurrent computing", "parallel computing", and "distributed computing" have much overlap, and no clear distinction...

processor that can scale to even larger systems. Rigetti Computing is a full-stack quantum computing company, a term that indicates that the company designs...

artificial immune systems, fractal geometry, artificial life, DNA computing, and quantum computing, among others. However, the field is more related to biological...

Edge computing is a distributed computing model that brings computation and data storage closer to the sources of data. More broadly, it refers to any...

traditional hard-computing algorithms heavily rely on concrete data and mathematical models to produce solutions to problems. Soft computing was coined in...

Grid computing is the use of widely distributed computer resources to reach a common goal. A computing grid can be thought of as a distributed system...

Native describes a computing system as operating directly with an underlying technology; with no intervening communication or translation layers. Native...

Lateral computing is a lateral thinking approach to solving computing problems. Lateral thinking has been made popular by Edward de Bono. This thinking...

characteristic that differentiates cloud computing from previously proposed distributed computing paradigms, such as grid computing. The dynamic adaptation of capacity...

Semantic computing is a field of computing that combines elements of semantic analysis, natural language processing, data mining, knowledge graphs, and...

Petascale computing refers to computing systems capable of performing at least 1 quadrillion (10^15) floating-point operations per second (FLOPS). These...

Stochastic computing is a collection of techniques that represent continuous values by streams of random bits. Complex computations can then be computed by simple...

Commodity computing (also known as commodity cluster computing) involves the use of large numbers of already-available computing components for parallel...

Ubiquitous computing (or "ubicomp") is a concept in software engineering, hardware engineering and computer science where computing is made to appear seamlessly...

computing), storage, and communication locally and routed over the Internet backbone. In 2011, the need to extend cloud computing with fog computing emerged...

customer data. Serverless computing represents a form of virtualized computing." according to ISO/IEC 22123-2. Serverless computing is a broad ecosystem that...

Urban computing is an interdisciplinary field which pertains to the study and application of computing technology in urban areas. This involves the application...

computing platforms, as well as from any of these to any other of these. Software and hardware represent different levels of abstraction in computing...