Main article: History of computer science Charles Babbage is credited with inventing the first mechanical computer. Ada Lovelace is credited with writing the first algorithm intended for processing on a computer. The earliest foundations of what would become computer science predate the invention of the modern digital computer. Machines for calculating fixed numerical tasks such as the abacus have existed since antiquity‚ aiding in computations such as multiplication and
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HISTORY AND APPLICATIONS OF COMPUTERS || INTRODUCTION When more than one thing is needed to work together before an action can take place‚ we say we have a system. The computer needs several things before it can be used to solve problems. Therefore‚ we say the computer is a system. We may have systems around us even in our body. How we eat or what happens to the food we eat is a system. This is called the Digestive System. We need mouth‚ tongue‚ teeth and stomach for us to make good
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The history of computer development is often referred to in reference to the different generations of computing devices. A generation refers to the state of improvement in the product development process. This term is also used in the different advancements of new computer technology. With each new generation‚ the circuitry has gotten smaller and more advanced than the previous generation before it. As a result of the miniaturization‚ speed‚ power‚ and computer memory has proportionally increased
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In our society today‚ computer technology plays an important role in many form of business‚ especially in the field of accounting. As technology advances‚ not only does the use of computers penetrates individual’s everyday life‚ it also helps to mange and improve many business operations from service‚ manufacturing to retail. Ken‚ an accounting graduate‚ works as an accounting clerk at Advance Manage‚ a service operation located in Markham‚ Ontario. The small business is in the form of a partnership
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Today’s Computers‚ Intelligent Machines and Our Future Hans Moravec Stanford University July 21‚ 1976 this version 1978 Introduction: The unprecedented opportunities for experiments in complexity presented by the first modern computers in the late 1940’s raised hopes in early computer scientists (eg. John von Neumann and Alan Turing) that the ability to think‚ our greatest asset in our dealings with the world‚ might soon be understood well enough to be duplicated. Success in such
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Can computers think independently and do they have "minds"? This question has been the topic of countless‚ bad movies since the 1950s as well as a number of science fiction novels. We all believe that we have minds. It is something that is taken for granted but what exactly is a mind and are humans the only to possess them? Ever since the invention of the computer‚ they have been a mystery‚ even to the smartest of scientists. With the ongoing development of artificial intelligence and high population
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The History of Computers Whether you know it or not you depend on computers for almost every thing you do in modern day life. From the second you get up in the morning to the second you go to sleep computer are tied into what you do and use in some way. It is tied in to you life in the most obvious and obscure ways. Take for example you wake up in the morning usually to a digital alarm clock. You start you car it uses computers the second you turn the key (General Motors is the largest buyers
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Computers in Education The typical school has 1 computer per 20 students‚ a ratio that computer educators feel is still not high enough to affect classroom learning as much as books and classroom conversation. Some critics see computer education as merely the latest in a series of unsuccessful attempts to revolutionise education through the use of audio- and visually-oriented non print media. For example‚ motion pictures‚ broadcast television‚ filmstrips‚ audio recorders‚ and videotapes were all
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The computer technology became a very important aspect in human lives that is greatly relied upon. Nowadays personal computers are made quite affordable and allow for easy and fast way to access information and solve problems in daily life. Life is a continuous information interchange and technological progress helps accelerate this exchange. However‚ people are so dependable on computers that they do not realize the impact it has on literacy. Computer literacy is essential in our modern society
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The Effects of Home Computers on Educational Outcomes: Evidence from a Field Experiment with Community College Students forthcoming Economic Journal Robert W. Fairlie University of California‚ Santa Cruz rfairlie@ucsc.edu Rebecca A. London Stanford University rlondon@stanford.edu July 2011 We thank the Community Technology Foundation of California (ZeroDivide)‚ UCACCORD‚ and Computers for Classrooms‚ Inc. for funding. We thank Hardik Bhatt‚ Jesse Catlin‚ Eric Deveraux‚ Oliver
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