The knowledge gap hypothesizes that people with more education and higher incomes will easily acquire more knowledge than those with less education and lower incomes, increasing the gap between the information-poor and the information-rich. ... People of higher socioeconomic status are more likely to be exposed to certain types of information. ... There is a difference in the amount of stored information or previously acquired background knowledge. ... With the help of government and private sectors, our youths of today have organizations that can assist them with the many problems of growi...

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The computer, together with the "all-powerful" Internet provides us with almost everything we could ever want; material things, information, even potential life partners (online dating); thus resulting in the formation of new words such as cyber-space or online connectivity. ... However, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has defined cyber-terrorism as "the premeditated, politically motivated attack against information, computer systems, computer programs, and data which result in violence against noncombatant targets by sub national groups or clandestine agents". ... The cyber-terroris...

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In some cases, the impact of cyber-attacks is difficult to estimate because many companies are not even aware of the information that has been stolen, while some companies withhold that information and do not make it public. ... It reflects the realm of Information Technology which in turn encompasses the internet, networks, computers, web etc. ... Information systems are of paramount importance to all partakers of the global economies. ... It basically modifies and spreads both correct and incorrect information. ... It makes use of inappropriate information to damage the credibility of the ta...

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This colossal expansion created problems for the young company, the early 1990s were plagued by weak information technology systems, a management team that lacked experience, and negative cash flows. ... In my role as Director of Information System at Tokyo Electron's US headquarter, I often get of the opportunity to see Dell close up, both as a locate Austin IT professional, and as a Dell customer. ... He found Jerry Gregoire at Pepsi, and convinced him to come to Austin, Texas to run Dell's huge Information Technology organization. ... Last year, Jerry was named Information Technol...

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Because of this departure from conventional methodology, Licklider's office was renamed the Information Processing Techniques Office (IPTO) (Haffner, 1996). ... After informal conversations with Licklider at the Second Congress on Information System Sciences in Hot Springs, Virginia, in November 1964, Roberts "concluded that the most important problem in the computer field before us at the time was computer networking; the ability to access one computer from another easily and economically to permit resource sharing." ... In pointing out the community phenomena created, in part, by ...

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Two men, Herman Hollerith and James Powers, developed a new punched-card system that could automatically read information on cards without human (Dolotta, 1985). ... This group included computers using random access memory, RAM, which is a memory designed to give almost constant access to any particular piece of information (Dolotta, 1985). ... Such computers were typically found in large computer centers operated by industry, government, and private laboratories staffed with many programmers and support personnel. ...

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Two men, Herman Hollerith and James Powers, developed a new punched-card system that could automatically read information on cards without human (Dolotta, 1985). ... This group included computers using random access memory, RAM, which is a memory designed to give almost constant access to any particular piece of information (Dolotta, 1985). ... Such computers were typically found in large computer centers operated by industry, government, and private laboratories staffed with many programmers and support personnel. ...

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Two men, Herman Hollerith and James Powers, developed a new punched-card system that could automatically read information on cards without human (Dolotta, 1985). ... This group included computers using random access memory, RAM, which is a memory designed to give almost constant access to any particular piece of information (Dolotta, 1985). ... Such computers were typically found in large computer centers operated by industry, government, and private laboratories staffed with many programmers and support personnel. ...

• Word Count: 2566
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