Computers: Invention of the Century The History of Computers Only once in a lifetime will a new invention come about to touch every aspect of our lives. ... This incredible invention is the computer. ... Together they had formed the Mauchley-Eckert Computer Corporation, America's first computer company in the 1940s. ... Eventually they built a working UNIVAC computer. ... Early in the 1950s two important engineering discoveries changed the electronic computer field. ...

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This incredible invention is the computer. ... Together they had formed the Mauchley-Eckert Computer Corporation, America's first computer company in the 1940s. ... Eventually they built a working UNIVAC computer. ... Early in the 1950s two important engineering discoveries changed the electronic computer field. ... During this time the major computer manufacturers beg...

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This incredible invention is the computer. ... Together they had formed the Mauchley-Eckert Computer Corporation, America's first computer company in the 1940s. ... Eventually they built a working UNIVAC computer. ... Early in the 1950s two important engineering discoveries changed the electronic computer field. ... During this time the major computer manufacturers beg...

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Market Strategy: Oasis Computers Inc. has scheduled to announce its new and innovative tennis software/personal computer, which tracks the player's records from the cradle to the grave. ... This is accomplished through the organizations web site, powered by Oasis Computer. ... Summary of Competition: There are many competitors to Oasis Computers tennis software in the market today. ... None of the members of the compensation committee will be employees of Oasis Computer Inc. Offices and Staff: Oasis Computers home office is located in San Francisco, California. ...

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They worked to produce simple computers that did not come with monitors, keyboards, and a few other accessories. ... The Mac's rapid popularity soon established Apple as a leader in the expanding computer industry. The computer was stated as "For the rest of us." Apple Corporation wasn't only about computers, it was also about culture. ... They reduced their product line from nineteen to four different types of computers. ...

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From telephones to the Internet, calculators to computers, cars to rockets and satellites, we are submerged in a sea of discoveries and inventions made possible by Science. Fields like Medicine and communications have made inroads into our cultures and thus our lifestyles. ... To cater to the huge human population, Technology in this field evolved side by side the scientific progress. ... The field of medicine today is well equipped to cope with the health problems faced by man. ... Issues such as euthanasia and abortion have always been topics of debate in the field of Medicine. ...

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This learning software will have three sections of online classes and practice test for the undergrad level, graduate level, and certification section for each specific field of practice in the world of medicine; such as the field of surgery, neuroscience, family medicine, dermatology, anesthesiology, etc. ... Also if you are working on the section at a specific time, we will have actual people working and at the computer for people who still are confused. ... The ones the student's miss the computer will show where they messed up and show the correction to the problem. ...

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IBM came to be the leading "computer" manufacturer of the time, although computers were mostly punch card machines that could sort out information by processing decks of punch cards. ... During the late 1940s, the U.S. government sponsored substantial research in computer technology leading to the development of the ENIAC, the first electronic computer utilizing von Neumann's famed "stored program" concept. ... In 1952, IBM launched the sales of its 701 series of computers which soon dominated the computing scene. ... The lab was headed by Carl Eckert, a noted astronomer who was the first...

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The bonds between military and computers started getting stronger. ... The idea was to come up with other jobs within the computer other than using the computers as calculators. ... (pg 83) At that time Lick, advised the government to get a contract from his company using new computers, Ken Olsen, who owns a computer company was trying to advertise his new computers called PDP-1 to BBN. ... By this time BBN had started to focus on computer technology. ... After his arriving to RANO, Baron's mail goal was to build more stable communications infrastructure, especially with the limited knowl...

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Most computer data goes over ordinary wires. ... In ordinary environments, it is not practical to use fiber optics to transmit data between personal computers and printers as it's too costly. ... Magnetic field lines generate an electrical current as they cut across conductors. The flow of electrons in a conductor generates a magnetic field that changes with the current flow. ... There are no radiated magnetic fields around optical fibers; the electromagnetic fields are confined within the fiber. ...

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The design of the HST's optical system is constructed in such a way that the largest possible field of view is achieved. ... The Wide Field Planetary Camera 2 (WFPC2), is the camera that replaced the former camera in the servicing mission in 1993. ... The Wide Field Camera, which is formed by the three image taking regions, is arranged in an "L" shape and they take images of reasonably large objects down to a particular level of detail. ...

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If big chunks of the network were blown away, which wouldn't matter, the packets would still stay airborne, moving across the field by whatever nodes happened to survive. ... ISP's usually have fast computers with dedicated connections to the internet. ... The average netcitizen uses their computer to call and ISP, and the netcitizens computer temporarily becomes a part of the internet. ... Most of this material is extremely hard to access as advanced knowledge of computers is required, however it is the youth in most families that know how to use the computer best. ... Computer porn...

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They release a magnetic field until the field reaches a certain strength. This strength is called the critical field, and the critical field varies for each superconductor. ... In a type II superconductor, there is a second critical field that is higher in value than the first critical field. Once the magnetic field is more than the value of the first critical field, the superconductor no longer repels the entire field; however, the superconductor does continue to conduct electricity without resistance until the magnetic field exceeds the value of the second critical field. ... This effect c...

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However Mr card has limited computer literacy. He does not have much knowledge of computers overall so this is another limitation. ... This will not affect Video Box as a computer is already owned. ... The users will have to do similar tasks but on a computer rather than on a piece of paper. ... The present system will be improved greatly by putting it on to a computer. ...

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Today, we're in the midst of a digital video revolution, thanks to HDTV, DTV, DVD-Video, digital satellite broadcasts and computer video. ... Typically, they will include composite video, S-video and component video inputs, plus one or more RGB inputs to accept the video input from a computer. ... Immunity from magnetic fields Components such as loudspeakers that contain strong magnets can distort the picture if placed too close a standard TV. However, because plasma displays do not use electron beams, as conventional CRT displays do, they are immune to the effects of magnetic fields. .....

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This paper will examine Microsoft's upcoming introduction of Internet Explorer 4.0, also known as Nashville, which will dramatically change the strategic playing field. ... ActiveX will also be incorporated into the mix when the next iteration of the Windows operating system (known as Memphis) arrives in 1997 or 1998 (Computer Reseller News, 10-9-96). ...

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He predicted that a computer will defeat a Chess champion around 1998, and he was darn close as computer beat him by 1997. ... If a computer got powerful enough, then it will beat a human chess player, and it did. ... He predicts that by year 2009, we will be carrying at least dozen computers in our body. ... By year 2009, most education will be done through the use of computers according to Kurzweil. ... By year 2019, computers will be largely invisible and embedded everywhere. ...

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Initially, the field was referred to as Aeronautical engineering. ... Aerospace is a new and exciting field of engineering. ... Aerospace engineering is a new and exciting field still young in its history. ... An aerospace engineer plays some part on one of the teams, spending more of her time (roughly 70 percent) in a lab, at a computer, and assembling reports than doing anything else. ... Academic requirements are strict and wide-ranging: Physics, chemistry, computer science, mathematics, materials science, statistics and engineering courses provide the base for any aspiring rocket scientist...

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At the 1985 Winter CES the Tramiels presented their new 8-bit home computer, the XE series, which was fully compatible to the old Atari computers. ... In 1993 Atari released it's last computer system, the Falcon. ... By this time Atari had clearly left the home computer market. ... For Nolan Bushell it was his interest in computer games. He played his very first computer game at college, Space War (Atari). ...

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As other inventions came on the scene-including automobiles, radios, televisions, computers-ceramic and glass materials were needed to help these become a reality, as shown in the following timeline. ... Fracture mechanics is the field of mechanics concerned with the study of the formation and subsequent propagation of microcracks in materials. ...

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For example, it is controversial whether to include cell phones, video games and computer games (such as MMORPGs) in the definition. ... Film 'Film'  encompasses motion pictures as individual projects, as well as the field in general. ... Video games A  video game is a computer-controlled game where a video display such as a monitor or television is the primary feedback device. ... There always must also be some sort of  input device, usually in the form of button/joystick combination (on arcade games), a keyboard and mouse/trackball  combination (computer games), or a  ...

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Data Radios The commands get from the computer to the robot through the  Maxstream  XCite OEM RF Module. ... The only thing I had to do was use a MAX232 chip to convert computer serial port voltages into standard 5V circuit voltages for the transmitting radio. ... The website seems to be down, so here's a link to it on my server: COMtester.exe) My computer program is just a modification of the DirectX demo from Microsoft that demonstrates how to get mouse input. ... The vertical aiming assembly was built by the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department machine shop at my college....

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Of course, attempting to find a perfect equation, thus a perfect solution, for the universe is viewed as impossible by many of the best minds in the field, it is possible to make good predictions which are based on trends. ... From here we get the beginning of the sequence as 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21, 34, 55, Fibonacci sequences have proven useful in number theory, geometry, the theory of continued fractions, genetics, computer science, and many other fields. ...

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Computer Assisted Interviews - Interviews could also be conducted through computers. In computer assisted telephonic interviews (CATI), the PC monitor prompts/shows the question with the help of software/email, select the phone number of the respondent and record the responses in a file, which are later on analyzed for research purpose. Computer assisted personal interviews (CAPI) are another type of interviews in which hardware and software is involved. ...

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Furthermore, Hussein claimed that Kuwait had illegally pumped oil from the Iraqi oil field of Rumaila and otherwise conspired to reduce Iraq's essential oil income. ... An interesting fact is that several weeks before this, US intelligence agents successfully inserted a computer virus into Iraq's military computers. ... This caused the communication to fail between Baghdad and the troops in the field. ...

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