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Computer Science for CONTINUOUS Data
Digital Computers naturally process discrete data, such as bits or integers or strings or graphs. From bits to advanced data structures, from a first semi-conducting transistor to billions in wafer-scale integration, from individual Boolean connectives to entire CPU circuits, from kB to TB memories, from 10 to 10 9 instructions per second, from punched cards to high-level programming languages: the success story of digital computing arguably is due to (1) hierarchical layers of abstraction and (2) the ultim
Continuous data on the other hand commonly arises in Physics, Engineering and Science: natura non facit saltus . Such data mathematically corresponds to real numbers, smooth functions, bounded operators, or compact subsets of some abstract metric space.
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