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Technology To Improve Education
Number of words: 643 - Number of pages: 3.... can do for a school. Technology must go further than simply keeping attendance; it must focus on keeping students interested and productive.
Since computers and the Internet have expanded in such a way in which education can be delivered to students, it is currently possible to engage in "distance education through the Internet. Distance education involves audio and video links between teachers and students in remote areas. Video conferencing allows groups to communicate with each other. Desktop video conferencing promises to bring students together from geographic and cultural distances, .....
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The Y2K Problem
Number of words: 4210 - Number of pages: 16.... ideas on how a systematic approach to the
"millennia virus" can prevent doomsday from becoming a reality for many
information technology managers and their corporations.
What, specifically, _is_ this "millennia virus" to begin with? There has
been much talk about it, and most people know it has something to do with
the date formats and how they are processed by the computer. How it is
affecting that processing is what the key to implementing a solution is.
There are several forms the "bug" will metamorphose into. For example:
Field / Date Processing
Time based calculati .....
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Advances In AI
Number of words: 3659 - Number of pages: 14.... for via. Both environmental and genetic factors contribute to human intelligence, however which of these, if any, is more important in shaping intelligence is a source of fierce disagreement. It seems apparent that those who posses higher levels of intelligence are accorded a certain amount of privilege. Therefore where intelligence comes from is essential in determining the validity of endowing privilege on those who posses it. Is it the case that the very definition of intelligence is socially constructed in order to maintain the existing social inequalities? Is it the case that social ineq .....
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Artificial Intelligence
Number of words: 420 - Number of pages: 2.... in specific areas of this information. Essential to such programs is the ability of the system to generate grammatically correct sentences and to establish linkages between words, ideas, and associations with other ideas. Research has shown that whereas the logic of language structure—its syntax—submits to programming, the problem of meaning, or semantics, lies far deeper, in the direction of true AI.
In medicine, programs have been developed that analyze the disease symptoms, medical history, and laboratory test results of a patient, and then suggest a diagnosis to the physician. .....
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Quantum Computers Fact -or- Fantasy?
Number of words: 1636 - Number of pages: 6.... doors one at a time to find the briefcase, an ordinary computer has to make it way through long strings of 1’s and 0’s until it arrives at the answer. But what if instead of having to search by yourself, you could instantly create as many copies of yourself as there were rooms in the building all the copies could simultaneously peek in all the offices, and the one that finds the briefcase becomes the real you, the rest just disappear. – (David Freeman, discover )
David Deutsch, a physicist at Oxford University, argued that it may be possible to build an extremely powerful computer base .....
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Dell Computer Corporation
Number of words: 1036 - Number of pages: 4.... government agencies and educational institutions. Dell also serves medium and small business and home-PC users.
Dell’s award-winning customer service, industry-leading growth and financial performance continue to differentiate the company from competitors. At the heart of that performance is Dell’s unique direct-to-customer business model. “Direct” refers to the company’s relationships with its customers, from home-PC users to the world’s largest corporations. There are no retailers or other resellers adding unnecessary time and cost or diminishing Dell’s understandin .....
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Using Frames In Web Pages
Number of words: 612 - Number of pages: 3.... to divide them up. (Note: If using web page providers such as
angelfire and geocities, make sure the page that the frames code is going
on is set for advanced html.)
The most popular way frames are organized is by using two columns.
One is simply being used for the menu of the web site, and the other being
used as the main page to view a specific page within the web site. The
examples used will include how to create frames showing the division of
the page into two columns and also showing the division of the page into
two rows.
First of all, name the three html documents index.html, .....
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Microsoft Corporation
Number of words: 4570 - Number of pages: 17.... of the locomotive, automobiles, cargo ships and
airplanes were the most evident by-products of such raw materials. Use of these
by-products from the earth's raw materials dramatically changed the world of
business and trade. With the subsequent invention of wire communications (i.e.,
tapping out Morse code and speaking over telephone lines), business and trade
grew exponentially. Wireless communications via the inventions of radio,
television, and motion pictures contributed greatly to the advances of the
Industrial Revolution. The need to find better ways of doing business to keep
the .....
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Effects Of The Year 2000 Problem
Number of words: 1661 - Number of pages: 7.... This seemingly small problem will result in a
loss of most records and information kept in computers causing a major
headache for government agencies and major businesses, not to mention all
home owners and other people. Gina Smith writes in a August 1998 issue of
Popular Science about the fixing of the problem
"You are probably wondering why the problem is so hart to fix. It isn't
It's just that there's so much to be fixed. Updating software to handle the
new century is sometimes a matter of culling through millions of lines of
code, and the finding and fixing every two-digit date refere .....
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Information Technology And Quality Customer Service
Number of words: 602 - Number of pages: 3.... was to be solved through automation. The work order would then find its way to ISD (Information Services Department) where it would be assigned to a programmer analyst who would do an in-depth analysis with the help of the ASU analyst and define the requirements for the automation project. The programming would begin and soon, a new program was created and deployed. The requests and problems soon began to multiply and expand until it was like a virtual snowstorm of requests, too many for one small unit to keep under control.
Help arrived around 1990 in the form of the Automation Project Ad .....
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