essay is based on a reading from the December 1999 exam: an essay: “Getting Close to the Machine” by Ellen Ullman. Why do we have computers? Computers are invented in order to facilitate the satisfaction of our needs. We want to satisfy our needs daily and computers are composed of our thoughts and of how we would realize the action performed by the computer. In Ellen Ullman’s “Getting Close to the Machine”‚ the effects and compositions of a programmed computer is clearly illustrated through many
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Summary Hampton Machine Tool Company was established in 1915‚ whose customers were aircraft and automobile manufacturers located in the St. Louis area. The company had a large success rate throughout the 1960’s‚ with an unfortunate decline throughout the mid 1970’s in sales. The company was able to recover in the years following due to a large increase in military aircraft sales‚ especially the company’s conservative financial policies. Mr. Benjamin G. Cowins‚ president of Hampton Machine Tool Company
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Dismantling the Sales Machine Author: Brent Adamson‚ Matthew Dixon‚ and Nicholas Toman Dated: November‚ 2013 Source: Harvard Business Review Magazine Dismantling the Sales Machine Sales leaders have long fixated on process discipline. They have created opportunity scorecards‚ qualification criteria‚ and activity metrics—all part of a formal sales process designed to help their team members replicate the approaches of star performers. This is the world of the sales machine‚ built to outsell less
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A Chief Lieutenant‚ of the Tuskegee Machine: Charles Banks of Mississippi. By David H. Jackson Jr. Gainesville: University Press of Florida‚ 2002. Charles Banks‚ the subject of this appealing biography was a seemingly well-known Black leader‚ like such as Obama Baraka and Jessie Jackson. Banks status‚ demeanor‚ and power were unlimited‚ way beyond his hometown of Clarksdale and Mound Bayou‚ Mississippi all-black towns. Born in 1873‚ in Clarksdale‚ Mississippi‚ Banks spent most of his life in
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“Can machines think?”- A question heavily debated dating back to the days of Descartes. This idea has been explored and analyzed by scholars in many diverse fields of study for many‚ many years. Mathematician Alan Turing was a pioneer in unraveling this question. His philosophies found in his published paper “Computing Machinery and Intelligence” changed the ways in which we perceive and comprehend artificial intelligence. Turing’s most famous advance on the age-old question was the self-titled Turing
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Political machine is an organization that “boss” or small autocratic group that commands the people who actually work and receive their payment. The power is upon on the boss‚ but it based on the workers so they can vote to impeach the executive officer. This government is legitimate forms of local government because the leader of political group is elected by “people”. Therefore‚ they usually support the political machine‚ and they follow the direction of their order. However‚ if they don’t satisfy
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A Protective Machine Gorilla The short film NO-A is a futuristic film about a gorilla-like machine trying to protect its creator from harm. NO-A was directed by a team of 8 students from Savannah College of Art and Design as a graduation project. The film won the 2015 Red Dot Award. The film begins with NO-A entering what looks to be a control room in a huge space looking building. The machine walks on all fours and rocks back and forth as if he is a primate. His creator must have built him in
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EAGLE MACHINE COMPANY The Eagle Machine Company has fallen on bad times. Eagle‚ a maker of specialty restaurant equipment‚ has sales totaling $72 million‚ but sales are declining while costs continue to increase. If things continue in this direction‚ Eagle soon may have to close its doors. At a special management meeting‚ the president lays it on the line! He demands that the firm break even in the remaining quarter of the year. For next year‚ he calls for profits of 5 percent‚ a 20 percent increase
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As a very important kind of gold ore crushing equipment‚ gold cone crusher is widely used in gold ore crusher.Our company has many gold ore crushing machine for sale .we have two series of gold cone crusher for sale:CS cone crusher and HPC series cone crusher.The rapid development of infrastructure construction open a huge market for aggregate sand‚ high quality construction sand and gravel aggregate will be warmly welcomed in the market‚ the demand of infrastructure project on sand and gravel aggregate
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The very notion of machine thinking used to strike us as strange‚ when we first heard of it. How can a machine think? It seemed obvious that only people can think. However‚ it is my belief that much of what passes for thinking by both people and computers is now machine thinking. And this is the source of our biggest problems. My primary source here is Iain McGilchrist’s book The Master and his Emissary: the Divided Brain and the Making of the Modern World. But other people have weighed in on this
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