Computer Applications focuses on word processing speed and accuracy‚ skill in the use of database and spreadsheet applications‚ and the integration of all of these. Contestants will have the opportunity to produce two printouts and the mandatory tie breaker. Each printout will be assigned a weighted point value‚ based on difficulty‚ which will be so indicated on the contest paper. This is a technology based contest‚ and the goal is for students to have a thorough‚ working knowledge of these three
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How many inventions in your lifetime can you think of that have changed everything in our society today? Computers have taken over today ’s society. From everyday tasks to moving satellites in space‚ PCs have revolutionized almost everything in our society. Computers weren ’t always this complicated though‚ and were around a long time before anyone even knew what the word "computer" meant. The Abacus was the first known machine developed to help perform mathematical equations. From what researchers
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Computer Multimedia Sam Quesinberry Computers have come a long way very fast since there start in the 1940’s. In the beginning they were mainly used for keeping financial records by banks and insurance companies‚ and for mathematical computations by engineers and the U.S. Military. However‚ exciting new applications have developed rapidly in the last few years. Two of these areas is Computer Graphics and sound. Computer graphics is the ability of the computer to display‚ store and transmit
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Computer hacking is the practice of modifying computer hardware and software to accomplish a goal outside of the creator’s original purpose. People who engage in computer hacking activities are often called hackers. Since the word “hack” has long been used to describe someone who is incompetent at his/her profession‚ some hackers claim this term is offensive and fails to give appropriate recognition to their skills. Computer hacking is most common among teenagers and young adults‚ although there
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Research Paper on Computer Games Addiction The Problems Of the Younger Generation Addicted to Computer Games No one can deny the overwhelming influence of media on the present day society. It is surrounding people wherever they are‚ as media is the books and newspapers that people read‚ TV shows and movies they are watching‚ radio they are listening. There is almost no escape from it. Media forms people?s opinions and experiences they rely on in their lives. Even though the influence of media
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Computer Mouse Mouse is a hand-operated electronic device that controls the coordinates of a cursor on your computer screen as you move it around on a pad. The main goal of any mouse is to translate the motion of your hand into signals that the computer can use. The mouse was first invented by Douglas Engelbart in 1964 and consisted of a wooden shell‚ circuit board and two metal wheels that came into contact with the surface it was being used on. Six years after Engelbart made the mouse they
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HISTORY OF COMPUTER THE PRE-MECHANICAL AGE: 3000 B.C. – 1450 A.D. 1. Writing and Alphabets – Communication First development of signs corresponding to spoken sounds‚ instead of pictures‚ to express words. Around 2000 B.C.‚ Phoenicians created symbols that expressed single syllables and consonants (the first true alphabet) The Greeks later adopted the Phoenician alphabet and added vowels; the Romans gave the letters Latin names to create the alphabet we use today. 2. Paper
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CASE 2: FALCON COMPUTER A small group of managers at Falcon Computer met regularly on Wednesday mornings to develop a statement capturing what they considered to be a “Falcon culture”. Their discussions were wide-ranging‚ covering what they thought their firm’s culture was‚ what it should be‚ and how to create it. They were probably influenced by other firms in their environment‚ since they were located in the Silicon Valley are of California. Falcon Computer was a new firm‚ having been created
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Computer Graphics When I think of art I think of great artists of the past. Artists that have spent practically all their lives to produce visually stunning pieces of work. Artists such as Michelangelo‚ who spent 15 years of his life to finalize a painting on the ceiling of the St. Peter’s Cathedral. When I think of art‚ I think of the legendary sculptures of the classical era. Artists then envisioned a final work from a block of stone. However‚ It is very difficult for me to consider a person
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on. Today‚ most of the servers from which we receive search results‚ e-mail‚ Web pages‚ and videos reside in large data centers. For example‚ Google has 30–50 data centers‚ with many having more than one hundred thousand servers. In a P2P network‚ the "peers" are computer systems which are connected to each other via the Internet. Files can be shared directly between systems on the network without the need of a central server. In other words‚ each computer on a P2P network becomes a file server as
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