About the book

cs in this time represents an umbrella that gives shelter to the fields of computer science, biomedicine, molecular technology, pharmaceutics, materials and others. The umbrella represents quantum modeling, the usefulness of which is increasing in all the mentioned fields of natural science simultaneously. The latter makes it possible to jump from one field to another and to thus come to synergetic solutions with unpredictable future. The textbook Načrtovanje nanoračunalniških struktur - Uvod v nanoračunalniško logiko puts great emphasis and provides content on this detail. The book is therefore useful for computer scientists and electric engineers as well as for natural scientists, technologists and technicians. In the previous century, the assertion has been made that transistor density per chip grows exponentially, therefore the dimensions are already sternly nearing 1 nanometer. The transition from micro to nano does not merely include converting micrometers to nanometers, but also an entirely different view of computer performance physically and technologically wise. Even from the point of information transfer, we can already control individual electrons. The quantum information flow and processing depends on coulombs rather than on electric current. In order to make this possible, standard physics, electronics, computer logic, information theory, etc. need to be replaced by quantum physics, quantum electronics, quantum logic, quantum information theory, etc. “Quantumness” takes us from standard information technology (IT) to nanoinformation technology (NIT). This is a basic change that demands different kinds of knowledge from computer scientists. The book deals with the basics of hardware, informational and logical knowledge in the domain of quantum cellular automata QCA. It is believed that nanocomputer science is a new vision that will be put forward in the next thirty years when computer performance will increase drastically – by 1,000 times. About the author: He has been following and researching the field of computer logic (binary, fuzzy, multiple-valued, probability and quantum logic) for nearly 50 years. He has introduced a series of computer science classes and held lectures on them (at the Faculty of electrical engineering Ljubljana and the Faculty of Computer and Information Science Ljubljana), and was one of the first advocators of computer science classes at the University of Ljubljana. He has written and republished over 45 technical titles. He has taken part in more than 50 projects, the majority of which has found its place at the companies Iskra and Gorenje. Before retiring he was in charge of the laboratory for computer structures and systems at the Faculty of Computer and Information Science. In the last twenty years of active work he published a series of articles, chapters and a monograph (Kluwer Academic Publishers) in cooperation with his co-workers. He is an honorary professor of the University of Ljubljana and an IEEE Life Member. He still actively follows the work in the laboratory for computer structures and systems that is among other things systematically directed toward designing nanocomputer structures and systems.