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CAD/CAM Systems
<view this essay>.... by a personal
computer, or a high end workstation. This software package is used to
create CAD (Computer Aided Design) models (Fuori 588).
There are basically three types of CAD models. The first type is wire frame
models, just a wire of zero thickness displaying the designed shape for the
intended designer. The second type of model is the surface model, a series
of small and large sheets connected to one another like a quilt blanket,
displaying the shape the designer intended. Lastly, is the solid model. It
is represented in the computer as solid shape, as if it were, for example a
solid piece of steel All data concerning its shape is known by the
comp .....
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Organic Molecules Challenge
<view this essay>.... in secret, mainly at their blackboards, plotting and planning. Now they
are beginning to conduct small forays in the laboratory, and their few successes
to date lead them to believe they were on the right track.
"We have a long way to go before carbon-based electronics replace silicon-based
electronics, but we can see now that we hope to revolutionize computer design
and performance," said Robert R. Birge, a professor of chemistry, Carnegie-
Mellon University, Pittsburgh. "Now it's only a matter of time, hard work, and
some luck before molecular electronics start having a noticeable impact."
Molecular electronics is so named because it uses mo .....
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How Technology Has Hurt Us
<view this essay>.... by shootings are a daily occurence in
our big cities. More people are turning the guns on themselves. Kids bring
guns to school with them for protection against people who may use a gun on them
for retaliation. Politically its divided the nation on whether private citizens
should be able to carry guns.
Disposable items have caused a big garbage problem. We use everything
from disposable pens to disposable diapers. We can stop some of the garbage
problem by recycling.
Air conditioners are using up allot of our electricity. There are times
in the summer when brown outs happen because if our excessive use of the air
conditioners. Freon gets released int .....
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History Of The Computer Industry In America
<view this essay>.... every aspect of people's lives for the better.
The very earliest existence of the modern day computer's ancestor is the abacus.
These date back to almost 2000 years ago. It is simply a wooden rack holding
parallel wires on which beads are strung. When these beads are moved along the
wire according to "programming" rules that the user must memorize, all ordinary
arithmetic operations can be performed (Soma, 14). The next innovation in
computers took place in 1694 when Blaise Pascal invented the first "digital
calculating machine". It could only add numbers and they had to be entered by
turning dials. It was designed to help Pascal's father who was a ta .....
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The Future Of The Internet
<view this essay>.... when it changed it's pricing plan, so
many new users came on, and so many people started staying on longer, that
it's system couldn't handle the strain and would run very slow and give
busy signals to almost everyone that tried to log on. As a result people
started staying online because they were afraid that if they logged off,
they would never get back on. This forced America Online to upgrade
enormous amounts of equipment, lease new telephone lines, and issue
commercials apologizing for the whole predicament. They even started giving
refunds to users who were never able to get on during the troubled ordeal.
Some people are predicting, because of t .....
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Computer Networking
<view this essay>.... basic problems. This report will be based around the mathematical aspects of setting up a network.
The first mathematical question in setting up a network is very basic. How many computers will be connected to this network and how many guest computers might come on at one time is the question. An example of a guest computer is if someone brought a laptop and connected it for a short while to download or access data. To find the answer to the question, simply count the desktop computers that will be connected and how many guest computers you expect to be connected at one time.
The second mathematical problem that occurs is best solved using an algebraic equation .....
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Technology And The Stock Market
<view this essay>.... serves to support and enhance the human judgement at point-of-sale.
NASDAQ, the world’s first fully electronic stock market, started trading on February 8th, 1971. Today, it is the fastest growing stock market in the United States. It alo ranks second among the world’s securities in terms of dollar value. By constantly evolving to meet the changing needs of investors and public companies, NASDAQ has achieved more than almost any other market, in a shorter period of time.
Technology has also helped investors buy stocks in other markets. Markets used to open at standard local times. This would cause an American trader to sleep through the majority of a .....
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The Computer And Mass Communication
<view this essay>.... information about computers and communications that might enliven my essay, and keep it current. Occasionally I broadcast requests for information.
On top of the modem sits the telephone, and that, too, ties me in to an information network. There are more than 500 million phones in the world, and if I knew the number and were willing to pay the bill, I could reach any of them. And as I do my work, I almost always have the radio on, picking a station from dozens of possibilities of broadcast entertainment and news. There is an astonishing electronic information infrastructure surrounding me - surrounding us all.
But the electronic part of the informatio .....
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