January 2017
Intermediate to advanced
154 pages
3h 44m
English
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Foreword
“The main rule is to please and touch.
All others are made only to achieve this first one”.
MOLIERE
Even if the NFC standard is young (developed in 2004), I have been asked to write this book for several years now, due to the pioneering role played in France (and in Europe) by our Computer Science Master’s degree MBDS (www.mbds-fr.org) at the University of Nice – Sophia-Antipolis around the prototyping of innovative services using this standard. MBDS prototyped NFC services in all sectors of economic life: from tourism and culture in Nice, to social payment in India, via campuses in Haiti, museums, airports, hotels, connected houses in Morocco and electric cars in Sophia Antipolis. In 2009, the city of Nice was the first for the deployment of NFC standard in Europe, because of the MBDS innovation research lab.
After half a dozen books published on databases, I was not really eager to write a new book. My first collection of books, following Knuth’s book (The Art of Computer Programming), my bedside reading as a fellowship student in California, was entitled “The Art of Databases”.
What changed my mind was the enthusiasm of Anne-Marie Lesas, who was working on her PhD on NFC secure services with our industrial partner Gemalto under a CIFRE convention1 from the ANRT2 and of an IFCPAR contract3 (www.cefipra.org) on NFC virtual social currency in India with TATA Consultancy Services (CS) and Bangalore University, as well as a scientific expertise on NFC patent infringement ...
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