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PostHeaderIcon Computing Meets the Physical World

  Rapid changes in computing will continue for the foreseeable future. The field of computing has always changed rapidly, and it is still doing so. The changes are driven, more than anything else, by Moore’s law. Many people think the pace of change is slowing, or even that because we already have the Internet and [...]

PostHeaderIcon computer virus

brief intro on computer virus A computer virus is a computer program that can copy itself and infect a computer without the permission or knowledge of the owner. The term “virus” is also commonly but erroneously used to refer to other types of malware, adware, and spyware programs that do not have the reproductive ability. [...]

PostHeaderIcon computers and society

The decade of the 1980′s saw an explosion in computer technology and computer usage that deeply changed society.  Today computers are a part of everyday life, they are in their simplest form a digital watch or more complexly computers manage power grids, telephone networks, and the money of the world.  Henry Grunwald, former US ambassador [...]

PostHeaderIcon devolpment, of Computers and Technology

Computers in some form are in almost everything these days.  From Toasters to Televisions, just about all electronic things has some form of processor in them.  This is a very large change from the way it used to be, when a computer that would take up an entire room and weighed tons of pounds has [...]

PostHeaderIcon History of the Computer Industry in America

Only once in a lifetime will a new invention come about to touch every aspect of our lives. Such a device that changes the way we work, live, and play is a special one, indeed.  A machine that has done all this and more now exists in nearly every business in the U.S. and one [...]

PostHeaderIcon History of computer

The volume and use of computers in the world are so great, they have become difficult to ignore anymore. Computers appear to us in so many ways that many times, we fail to see them as they actually are. People associated with a computer when they purchased their morning coffee at the vending machine. As [...]