Computer technology is playing a major role in today's classrooms at all levels of from kindergarten to college. ... The program makes it very easy to present info to students or co-workers. ... Although computers have helped us become more educated, there is a negative effect for students, especially younger students who are growing up on learning from computers. ... Students are forgetting the true way of studying. ... By the time a student graduate's high school or college he or she will be efficient in having at least decent typing skills. ...

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They feel children do not need computers in school, that they can learn to use them at home, or in college, or even after they enter the work force. ... With all their students having computers with them at home, teachers say it gives them flexibility in assigning homework and the ability to answer student questions more readily through e-mail. ... The school district is satisfied with the program and has decided to expand it to 200 students. ... Each student must use his own computer if he is to benefit the most. ... They feel children do not need computers in school, that they can learn to...

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First, students receive training when and where they need it. ... Second, students can adjourn training at any point in the lesson and return to it later. ... Students find the program interesting, so they stick with it. ... From pre-schoolers to college students, learning adapting to this multimedia craze was not hard to do. ... Most will agree that classroom computers seem to have a positive effect on students of the 90's. ...

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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. ... Along with educators, various student groups also were engaged in these technical developments outside of the more established community of users. ... To overcome this limitation, student groups from various universities came up with modem technology. ... High schools began to teach simple programming skills and other computer applications to students as part of th...

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Steve Jobs was given up for adoption by his mother, an unwed graduate student, and his father, a native Syrian mathematics professor, to Paul and Clara Jobs. ... He told his parents he wanted to enroll in Reed College, an expensive and fancy liberal arts college in Oregon. ...

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Depending on the students' chosen careers, they may also take courses in finance, accounting, and management to support their IT job. ... Interview Data The ethnographer conducted an interview with a supervisor of IT department of a college in Connecticut. ... Beside that the respondent is not only work for IT department but he also stands on classes of his college for part time job. ...

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Hackers cost governments, corporations, and even normal people billions of dollars per year. You might ask, sure, there are those out there for profit, but what about the college student who was just doing it for fun? Profit or fun, it's still theft. In some cases theft of money, in others, theft...

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Atanasoff) and his graduate student (Clifford Berry) envisioned an all-electronic computer that applied Boolean Algebra to computer circuitry. ... He graduated in 1935 at Kings College, Cambridge with a B.A in mathematics and won a Smiths prize in 1936 on a paper he wrote, "On the Gaussian error function. ... Turing returned to Kings College in 1938 and when war broke out in 1939, he began working for the government. ...

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In order to look at the operating systems, we must first ask the questions "What is a computer?" and then "What is an operating system?" In his book A History of Modern Computing, Paul Ceruzzi states that "computers were invented to "compute": to solve "complex mathematical problems," as the dictionary still defines that word. They still do that, but that is not why we are living in an "Information Age." That reflects other things that computers do: store and retrieve data, manage networks of communications, process text, generate and manipulate images and sounds, fly air and space craft...

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Many consumers may currently be college students who need computers, while those who have graduated will be within a higher income bracket or hold positions in which a personal computer at home is advantageous. ...

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