This is the first volume in a hardcover series combining Synthesis Lectures. This volume contains the following lectures: Quantum Computing for Computer Architects; High Fidelity Haptic Rendering; A Blossoming Development of Splines; Network Simulation; and RFID Explained A Primer on Radio Frequency Identification Technologies
Dr. Mark D. Hill, Ph.D. (Computer Science, University of California-Berkeley, 1987; M.S., Computer Science. Berkeley, 1983; B.S.E., Computer Engineering, University of Michigan-Ann Arbor, 1981) is Gene M. Amdahl & John P. Morgridge Professor Emeritus of Computer Sciences at University of Wisconsin-Madison. Dr. Hill received the ACM–IEEE CS Eckert-Mauchly Award in 2019 for seminal contributions to the fields of cache memories, memory consistency models, transactional memory, and simulation.