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 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...

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

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

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...

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

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

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

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...

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

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...

Volunteer computing is a type of distributed computing in which people donate their computers' unused resources to a research-oriented project, and sometimes...

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...

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

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

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...

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

Dew computing is an information technology (IT) paradigm that combines the core concept of cloud computing with the capabilities of end devices (personal...

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

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

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...

Fabric computing or unified computing involves constructing a computing fabric consisting of interconnected nodes that look like a weave or a fabric when...

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

Mobile computing is human–computer interaction in which a computer is expected to be transported during normal usage and allow for transmission of data...