CERT is located at the Software Engineering Institute, a federally funded research center operated by Carnegie Mellon University. ... The CERT/CC offers learning opportunities in network computing security through an educational collaboration with Carnegie Mellon University and through our own training courses aimed at private and public sector professionals. ... Members of our staff also teach courses in security at Carnegie Mellon University. ...

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Students have had to get degrees by attending classes in university. ... The university won't survive as residential institution. ... It doesn't mean that our actual university will vanish in future. Many "virtual universities" are based on actual universities to use their resource. ... The actual university will use the best of the virtual university. ...

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Furthermore, every faculty member who wants one has a computer that, along with student terminals, is wired via fiber-optic cable to the main university computer. In addition, the university tries very hard to keep software such as word processors, spreadsheets, and database programs as up to date as possible. ... Although universities are rapidly upgrading computer technology on campus, computer-assisted distance learning relying exclusively on the Internet would most likely require the purchase of additional software and modems. ... For the students, extra costs could be high, conside...

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A computer can be used with a grade one student to help that child learn new English vocabulary and the same machine can be used by a university student to write a sophisticated micro-chip program to control a robotic arm. ... Before students were able to use computers in universities, the only community that had access to the giant main-frame computers were from the military and research institutions. ... The only big institutions that were able to afford such systems were the US military and some larger universities. To overcome this limitation, student groups from various universities ca...

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IBM was created as IBM by T. J. Watson, Sr. from a small company, the Computing and Tabulating Company, which he happened to lead near the beginning of this century. Watson Sr. built the company into a leader of office equipment, which at the time consisted largely of time clocks and eventually punc...

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"Data is a precious thing and will last longer than the systems themselves." Tim Berners-Lee, a man who believed knowledge should be free and accessible to the world. A man who thinks that computers are the future for the world and will change everything. In this research report I will be going thro...

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Some alarming statistics find that, in 2013, not a single African American students took AP computer science exam in 11 states and no Hispanic students tested in 8 states. Among the 30,000 students who took AP computer science test, only around 10 percent of them are African American and Hispanic st...

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In 1965, Gordon Moore, the co-founder of Intel made the observation that the number of transistors per square inch on integrated circuits had doubled every year since the integrated circuit was invented. He predicted that this development would continue in the future and it has. Although the initial...

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According to Reich, "Leaders of companies universities, museums, hospitals, and other institutions want to create virtuous circles in which money and talent join together with a lot of other money and talent and as they link up, capture the mutual benefits of the group's prestige its capacity to innovate, [and] the teaching and learning that occurs within it...

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(Hafner 50-51) Though the Internet itself reaches over thirty million people world wide and is usually free through universities, research organizations, and corporations, less than 10% of its users are women. ... Among the anecdotes was that of Janis Cortese, a physicist at Loma Linda University and her experiences attempting to join a Star Trek .Such harassment is not surprising when one considers that the Internet environment is almost exclusively male and that participants are at least partially anonymous and held less for their actions. ...

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Therefore computers (and the access to their components) were only available to those with the financial resources, or to those who were lucky enough to be attending an upstate college or university with an extensive computing research center and program. ... Computers consumed entire wings of university halls and research centers. ...

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Technology in today's world plays a big role in many peoples lives in the high tech world we live in today. Making lives easier and more convenient, high technologic inventions are created or invented to better people's lives. High tech researchers are always finding ways to improve daily activities...

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According to Witmer (1995), the VC "potentially facilitates discussion and debate, enables collaboration opportunities for experiential learning, enhances group cohesion among students, reduces communication anxiety, improves student perceptions of learning, provides a wide range of information resources, and extends access to university resources." ...

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As a technology, it is called multimedia. As a revolution, it is the sum of many revolutions wrapped into one: A revolution in communication that combines the audio visual power of television, the publishing power of the printing press, and the interactive power of the computer. Multimedia is the co...

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At the end of the 18th century, inventions such as Kay's Flying Shuttle, Hargreaves' Spinning Jenny and the power provided by Watt's Steam Engine changed the way that goods were produced. This period, now known as the Industrial Revolution, saw the start of the factory system and gave birth to mechanisation and the manufacturing industry. In 1952, the introduction of numerical control (NC) , allowed machine and cutting tools to become automated, using punched paper tapes for control. During the 1970s, computers became part of the manufacturing system, enabling fully automated pr...

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Throughout the early 1960's, there were a number of commercially successful second-generation computers used in business, universities, and government from companies such as Burroughs, Control Data, Honeywell, IBM, Sperry-Rand, and others. ...

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The History of Computers Only once in a lifetime will a new invention come about to touch every aspect of our lives. Such devices changed the way we manage, work, and live. A machine that has done all this and more now exists in nearly every business in the United States. This incredible invention...

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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. Such devices changed the way we manage, work, and live. A machine that has done all this and more now exists in nearly every business in the ...

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The History of Computers Only once in a lifetime will a new invention come about to touch every aspect of our lives. Such devices changed the way we manage, work, and live. A machine that has done all this and more now exists in nearly every business in the United States. This incredible invention...

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Also, Jim Wagner, Chief Information Officer of the University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics, stated that the position of its hospitals is to test all pieces of equipment that could possibly be life threatening. ...

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