Lecture Notes in Computer Science: Authors’ Instructions for the Preparation of Camera-Ready Contributions to LNCS/LNAI Proceedings 1 Introduction: The preparation of manuscripts which are to be reproduced by photo-offset requires special care. Papers submitted in a technically unsuitable form will be returned for retyping, or canceled if the volume cannot otherwise be finished on time. 1.1 LNCS Online Springer-Verlag now provides the full-text version of the LNCS and LNAI proceedings online. Therefore please submit to the volume editors (and NOT to Springer-Verlag), together with your own single-sided printout of the final version of your contribution (which cannot be modified at a later stage), your source (input) files, e.g. TEX files for the text and PS or EPS files for figures, the final DVI file (for papers prepared using LaTeX or TeX), the final PS file and, if possible, a PDF file of the final version of your contribution. If you have prepared your pape...
Chapter 1 Introduction to Computer Science and Media Computation What is a program? A program is a description of a process in a particular programming language that achieves some result that is useful to someone. A program is written in a programming language and can be executed by a computer What is an algorithm? An algorithm is a description of a process apart from any programming language. An algorithm can be written in English and is a description of a process. What is memory used for in a computer? Memory stores everything that the computer is currently working with. What type of computer scientist studies how recipes are written? What type of computer scientist studies how to make a computer think? What type of computer scientist studies the units used in recipes? What is Moore’s Law? What does it have to do with computers getting faster and cheaper? Gordon Moore, one of the founders of Intel made the claim that th...
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