Essays Tagged: "computer age"
Computers in modern society
Looking around at daily life, I noticed a pattern of computer oriented devices that make life easier and allow us to be lazier. These devices are in most ... lazier. These devices are in most daily activities ranging from waking up to an alarm clock that is computerized to watching the news before going to bed on a computerized television. All of these com ... rease our daily productivity and help us to do whatever it is we need to accomplish in the day. The computer age is upon us and it will continue to grow in influence until society revolves around it d ...
Subjects: Science Essays > Computer Science > Internet and networking
Computers and the Disabled
The computer age has changed many things for many people, butfor the disabled the computer has ultimatel ... force. Previously unemployable people can now gain the selfesteem from fully supporting themselves. Computers have given themthe advantages of motion were it had not previously existed.Disabled childr ... af, including on screen text to synthesizespeech or Braille, and adaptive hardware that transforms acomputers audible cues into a visual format. Computers have giventhe limited back their freedom to b ...
Subjects: Science Essays > Computer Science
The Dependability of the Web
A new age is upon us - the computer age. More specifically, the internet. There's no doubt that the internet has changed how fa ... oks into the future in order to stay ahead of the competition, said the internet is one part of the computer business that he really underestimated. As one of the richest men in the world I doubt if h ... ded, technological improvements need to be developed. For example, bigger pipelines (lines carrying computer data) like fiber optics and satellite transmission are receiving high ratings from people, ...
Subjects: Science Essays > Computer Science > Internet and networking
Principles of ecology
are used to illustrate the usefulness of fractalgeometry to the field of ecology. The advent of the computer age played an important role in thedevelopment and acceptance of fractal geometry as a vali ... ons allows ecologists to map animal pathways without creating anunmanageable deluge of information. Computer simulations of landscapes provide useful models forgaining new insights into the coexistenc ...
Subjects: Science Essays > Environmental Science
A Brief History of Library Automation
An automated library is one where a computer system is used tomanage one or several of the library's key functions such asacquisitions, ... ry of library automation, itis possible to return to past centuries when visionaries well beforethe computer age created devices to assist with their book lendingsystems. Even as far back as 1588, the ... amples of earlyingenuity in library systems exist, however, this paper will focus onthe more recent computer automation beginning in the early twentiethcentury.The Beginnings of Library Automation: 19 ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Library & Information Science
History of Apple Computer 2002 and the PC Industry.
1. Analyze the structure of the personal computer industry over the last ten years. How have the dynamics of the PC industry changed?2. Has S ... te's "Windows" package and "Apple's" "I think, therefore iMac" statement, but in reality the modern computer age began in 1971, when Intel built the first microprocessor chip in an attempt to provide ... terms of profits, but I feel that it would be ideal to illustrate how the dynamics of the Personal Computer Industry have changed over the last ten years. The general model is shown overleaf.Diagram ...
Subjects: Businesss Research Papers
Cyber Terrorism
they creating something that can be used to create mass destruction for the United States? Everyday computers get faster, new programs are written, or some computer programmer might find a faster and ... . Most understand the word terrorism to mean bombs, and mass murders, but with the evolution of the computer age, terrorism is taking on a whole new meaning. No longer is computer hacking something fr ...
Subjects: Science Essays > Computer Science > Computer Ethics
Should the US Government be scared of Cyber Terrorism?
they creating something that can be used to create mass destruction for the United States? Everyday computers get faster, new programs are written, or some scientist finds a way to make a job be done ... Most people think the word terrorism to mean bombs, and mass murders, but with the evolution of the computer age, terrorism is taking on a whole new meaning. This new technology is being called Cyber ...
Subjects: Science Essays > Computer Science > Computer Ethics
Grace Murray Hopper.
her lifetime Grace Hopper accomplished many great things. She gained the title "grandmother of the computer age" for her ground- breaking work on the first computer, the Mark I.Grace Murray Hopper wa ... tion could do calculations in one day, that by hand would have taken six months. She also converted computer language into English, in a system called COBOL. She also coined the term "bug", meaning a ...
Subjects: Science Essays > Mathematics
This Essay examines American and African body modifications and how we view other cultures
painting to piercing to scarification, from tattoos to plastic surgery, from the Bronze Age to the computer age, cultures from around the world have changed their ideas of how a body should look, and ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays
"War Games" and the 80's.
"War games" definitely displayed some true 80's themes. The computer age was really dawning on society and was finding its way into people's homes all across Am ... erica. As the technology age began to boom back in the 80's there was presumably natural fears that computer technology would grow too fast and computers might become to powerful and could take over. ... t and computers might become to powerful and could take over. But, I think the most things that the computerized generation was worried about were that they would rely too much on computers that they ...
Subjects: Art Essays > Film & TV Studies > Genre Study
Computers in society.
My report is on the development of the computer for personal use by home consumers and their impact on society. Computers were being develo ... on society. Computers were being developed as early as the 1800's and were more of a machine than a computer. The first digital computer that worked electronically was built by Clifford Berry and Dr. ... ly was built by Clifford Berry and Dr. John V. Atanasoff in the late 30's and early 40's. The first computer as we know it was designed by Howard Aiken and built by IBM in 1944. This first computer wa ...
Subjects: Science Essays > Computer Science
Travel Websites
Evaluating Travel WebsitesIn today's computer age, products and services are easily accessible on the internet. The key to the internet, ...
Subjects: Businesss Research Papers > Case Studies > E-commerce
Computer in the society
Looking around at daily life, we notice a pattern of computer oriented devices that make life easier and allow us to be lazier. These devices are in most ... lazier. These devices are in most daily activities ranging from waking up to an alarm clock that is computerized to watching the news before going to bed on a computerized television. All of these com ... rease our daily productivity and help us to do whatever it is we need to accomplish in the day. The computer age is upon us and it will continue to grow in influence until society revolves around it d ...
Subjects: Science Essays > Computer Science
Artifical Intelligence
and how they work. Also I hope you will understand how very important they are to sociality in this computer age world. Enjoy the reading.What are expert systems? An expert system is a programmed data ...
Subjects: Businesss Research Papers
Student Survival Guide: For A Distance Learning Environment
anizational skills needed to develop new strategies in successfully retrieving information from our computer age society. This guide is meant to provide information on how to manage time, use online l ...
Subjects: Businesss Research Papers > Management
Hacking
they creating something that can be used to create mass destruction for the United States? Everyday computers get faster, new programs are written, or some scientist finds a way to make a job be done ... . Most understand the word terrorism to mean bombs, and mass murders, but with the evolution of the computer age, terrorism is taking on a whole new meaning. No longer is computer hacking something fr ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Current Issues
Photomosaics Robert Silvers
Year" Photo 6 http://www.robertsilvers.com Photomosaics® "If Leonardo da Vinci had lived in the computer age, he might have created Photomosaics. Instead, it was left to Robert Silvers to discover ... Hainer, 1997, p. 6) What Is A Photomosaic? Robert Silvers combined his love of photography, art and computer graphics to develop a software program called Photomosaics(1). "A photo mosaic is a picture ...
Subjects: Art Essays > Artists
Technology and Law Enforcement
how we police were responding. No need for "look outs", technology became the look out. Now in the computer age we see crimes from identity theft and hacking into computers to steal personal and corp ... is to improve police work.In a town in Mississippi, the local police agency received 24 refurbished computers from the Aurora, Colorado police department. The police chief in Mississippi was excited b ...
Subjects: Law & Government Essays