From the reviews: "This is a book about the present and the future of computing machines. ... At the end of the book a list of 144 refs are included giving the reader the possibility to know more than there are in the book. ... the book represents an excellent text at a post-graduate level aiming to give to the researchers the basic ideas and techniques in this new emerging domain." (Dumitru Stanomir, Zentralblatt MATH, Vol. 1210, 2011)