In Partial Fulfillment in the Requirements for the Subject Operating System Submitted by: Dragon‚ Glennis Ann F. Fortin‚ Brian Kenneth T. Gabertan‚ Mark Jay D. Maniago‚ Marvin M. Nuqui‚ Archie J. Date Submitted: March 20‚ 2013 A brief history of Ubuntu Ubuntu was conceived in 2004 by Mark Shuttleworth‚ a successful South African entrepreneur‚and his company Canonical. Shuttleleworth recognized the power of Linux and open source‚ but was also aware of weaknesses that prevented mainstream
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A robot can be defined as a programable‚ self controlled device consisting of electronic‚ electrical‚ or mechanical units. The notion of robots or robot-like automates can be traced back to medieval times. Although people of that era didn’t have a term to describe what we would eventually call a robot‚ they were nevertheless imagining mechanisms that could perform human like tasks. As early as 270 BC an ancient engineer named Ctesibus made organs and water clocks with moveable figures. In medieval
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A Brief History of Telescopes 1608 AD – Hans Lippershey‚ German-born Dutch lens maker‚ applied for a patent for his refracting telescope (using 2 lenses)‚ he intended them for use in the military. 1609-1610 – Galileo Galilei built his own refractor telescopes to observe the sky‚ and discovered Saturn’s rings‚ Jupiter’s moons‚ and along with many other significant discoveries. 1655 – Christian Huygens‚ a Dutch physicist and astronomer developed powerful lenses for refractor telescopes with his
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*Brief History of Windows After reading the January 1975 issue of Popular Electronics that demonstrated the Altair 8800‚ Gates contacted Micro Instrumentation and Telemetry Systems (MITS)‚ the creators of the new microcomputer‚ to inform them that he and others were working on a BASIC interpreter for the platform. In reality‚ Gates and Allen did not have an Altair and had not written code for it; they merely wanted to gauge MITS’s interest. MITS president Ed Roberts agreed to meet them for a demo
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A Brief History of Finland When looking through the main events in Finnish history‚ broadly speaking‚ it can be divided into three chapters: the Swedish period prior to 1809‚ the Russian period from 1809 to 1917‚ and the independent period from 1917 to the present day. Finland was part of the Swedish Empire from 1150 to 1809. As we are focusing on the main events in Finnish history‚ we are going to begin from the 17th century. During the 17th century‚ while Finland was under Swedish Rule‚ it
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A BRIEF HISTORY OF PHARMACOGNOSY In 780 AD ‚ a Greek pharmaco-botanist Pedanios Dioscorides wrote and described about 600 plants with medicinal properties in his book “De materia medica libre cinque(concerning medical matter in five volumes). Galen was a Greek pharmacist-physician who lived in Rome and who describe the method of preparing formulas containing plant and animal drugs and the term ”galenical pharmacy” was originated. In 19th century material medica (medical
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The Internationalization of Indian Companies: The Case of Tata Andrea Goldstein TCFGS Conference “The Asian Economy and the World Economy” Tokyo‚ 13-14 November 2007 Why Tata? • • • • • Turnover > US$28 bn‚ equivalent to over 2.5% of India’s GDP Traditionally the biggest market capitalization (now Reliance) India’s largest employer in the private sector (222‚000+‚ 85 companies) many firsts/largests for India: – first private sector steel mill (TISCO 1907) – first private
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A Brief History Of Computers The history of computers starts out about 2000 years ago‚ at the birth of the abacus‚ a wooden rack holding two horizontal wires with beads strung on them. When these beads are moved around‚ according to programming rules memorized by the user‚ all regular arithmetic problems can be done. Another important invention around the same time was the Astrolabe‚ used for navigation. Blaise Pascal is usually credited for building the first digital computer in 1642. It added
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Brief History of the NRA The National Rifle Association in its simplest form is the largest gun club in the world. The organization was founded in 1871 by former Union Army officers to encourage sport shooting in order to have a fine tuned militia in case of emergency. The Union officers believed that a well regulated militia was integral for the security of a free state. It is an organization that opposes gun control‚ it believes in the individual defense of the uses of firearms‚ and it is
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Ford Motor Company (NYSE: F) Ford Motor Company – A History Vehicle History Ford Motor Company was founded by Henry Ford in Detroit‚ Michigan. Ford was a skilled craftsman‚ who used his skills to create an experimental car in 1896. He created a two cylinder vehicle that was capable of going up to 20 mph. Ford left his primary job in 1899 to create Detroit Automobile Company and produced the Model A in 1903. The car had an under the floor engine and sold for $850. This car sold 1‚708 units
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