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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”. |