Computers as cultural objects
Thesis - 3 pages - Social, moral & civic education
The computer is without a doubt a central to the creation of culture in the twentieth-century (and beyond). Why is it that the computer has become so central to our culture when it is just a tool, or specifically a means for processing and spreading information? It many ways it is...
The significance of computer literacy in college and in the workforce
Essay - 3 pages - Educational studies
Today's information age has progressed very rapidly that the world is suddenly controlled and overwhelmed by vast innovations - the most dominant of which are the computers. The device has literally run every single detail of our lives that people are almost obliged to familiarize...
Apple computers
Essay - 3 pages - Business strategy
The PC market is one of the largest in the world. It has essentially become a part of everyday life for almost anyone living in an industrialized nation. Among the corporations that dominate this market, none has greater name recognition than Apple. Apple's computers, along with their...
Social Issues in Computer Technology
Essay - 3 pages - Social, moral & civic education
One issue that Australians will be confronted with in the future is the privacy of the individual, in lieu of the proposal of computerizing personal medical records. Due to the fact that medical records hold highly sensitive information about what are possibly an individual's most intimate...
The main architectural features of the RISC (Reduced Instruction Set Computer)
Essay - 6 pages - Electronics, mechanics, engineering & technology
The world of computer technology has evolved rather rapidly in the past two decades. Interestingly, while the number of languages and programs available has increased, the specific architectures that are used for building microprocessors have not changed that dramatically. What this...
Quantum Computing Versus Turing Machines
Course material - 1 pages - Computer science
Quantum computing refers to the process of using modern bit-based machines to process large amounts of information. Quantum computers deal with intertwined electrons that are superposed and entangled to enable the machine process large data sets, rendering the classically intractable...
The Third Party Doctrine - Social, Legal, and Ethical Issues for Computing Technology
Essay - 2 pages - Computer science
It is a United States legal theory that holds that information that is freely given to third parties should not be expected to be private or people should not use the Fourth Amendment Act as a defense against the convictions. The rule gives the government and government agencies a Right to...
Does gender perception toward computing exist in Thailand? - A comparison study between Thai and the US
Tutorials/exercises - 6 pages - Social, moral & civic education
Number of studies show that computing has been long perceived as a male domain. With this perception, females may experience negative outcomes in the computing-related occupation or activities, such as discrimination, pay differentials and the “glass ceiling effect”. Does this...
A high level language abstraction for reconfigurable computing
Thesis - 7 pages - Computer science
The gain of SVC depends upon the type of reactive power load for optimum performance. As the load and input wind power conditions are variable, the gain setting of SVC needs to be adjusted or tuned. In this paper, an ANN based approach has been used to tune the gain parameters of the SVC...
Growth of distributed systems using grid computing and softer aspects of E science
Thesis - 7 pages - Computer science
Grid computing and eScience are two major areas of growth of distributed systems. The grid concept refers to the virtualization of computing resources in the sense that end-users should have the illusion of using a single source of computing power without knowing the locality of the computation....
Cloud Computing
Essay - 10 pages - Services marketing
Undeniably, the technology over the Internet is evolving constantly since its creation. Actually, a new trend of using the Internet with business is showing up named Cloud Computing. This web technology offers new opportunities for companies or individuals to cut costs through the delivery of...
Cloud Computing - published: 29/09/2010
Essay - 16 pages - Computer science
We can assume that a few years ago, "cloud computing" was a vague concept, arguing that in an uncertain future, computing would not require anymore software or hardware facilities to be used locally by the end user. This concept had its place with other futurist concepts, such as the vision of a...
Cloud Computing - published: 15/07/2013
Case study - 2 pages - Computer science
Cloud Computing is a new technology, which is delivered as a service rather than a product in this modern technology driven market. In olden days, people used mainframe computers widely for various reasons. With the changing technologies, the bigger and most expensive computing devises are...
E-business, cloud computing
Case study - 6 pages - Economy general
Cloud computing, what does it mean? If we mention it to our relatives, it sounds difficult to figure it out, and nevertheless this is a trend that we can witness in everyday life. The definition is, 'it is a way for the computers to forget the use of hard drives, all applications and...
Network technologies for cluster computing
Thesis - 12 pages - Computer science
A broad and growing range of possibilities are available to designers of a cluster when choosing an interconnection technology. As the price of network hardware in a cluster can vary from almost free to several thousands of dollars per computing node, the decision is not a minor one in...
Grid computing: Faster networking
Case study - 6 pages - Computer science
Today we are in the Internet world and everyone prefers to enjoy fast access to the Internet. But due to multiple downloading, there is a chance that the system hangs up or slows down the performance that leads to the restarting of the entire process from the beginning. This is one of the serious...
Security issues with cloud computing
Case study - 3 pages - Management
As most of the cloud computing services depend on the internet, the availability of the service is incessant. The only thing a user needs to worry about is the security of the data, which is stored on the cloud network, which is popularly known as shared network. Most of the services available on...
Security vulnerabilities of cloud computing
Case study - 2 pages - Management
Data, for any company, is most important than anything. Companies will take a lot of security measures to ensure the data security and unwanted hacks. This is the major reason companies, which are into data sensitive fields; take a back seat when talking about the cloud computing services....
Computational Aesthetics Applied to Islamic Art
Case study - 3 pages - Psychology
Aesthetics, a branch of philosophy, entails the nature of art beauty and taste in the development and recognition of beauty. Computational aesthetics is related to the use of information, communication and technology in the development of new aesthetic features. It aims to enable not only the...
Security and advantages of cluster computing over distributed systems
Thesis - 7 pages - Computer science
A cluster is a parallel or distributed system consisting of independent computers that cooperate as a single system. In the case Server, Cluster consists of two types of participant's dispatchers and servers. The goal of a cluster is to allow distributing of the computing load over the...
The history of data storage and it's place in modern day computing
Thesis - 2 pages - Computer science
Even before the first computer made its way into popular knowledge, data storage was an activity that had occurred many times. Data had been copied and stored on a hard disk like tool and then re-used by a mechanical contraption of some sort. In 1801 for example the punch card was used to...
Green & Sustainable IT
Case study - 4 pages - Digital & e-marketing
Green computing, also known as green IT, has gained recognition and support from various stakeholders in the world, including governments, businesses, and consumers. Many governments around the world have implemented policies and regulations to encourage the adoption of green computing practices,...
Artificial Intelligence
Essay - 3 pages - Computer science
Artificial intelligence is a concept which, owing to its intricacy, is difficult to define with complete accuracy. In a way, it is a field of computer science whose goal is to recreate a technological counterpart to human intelligence. And, to do so, this discipline is focused on the...
Dental informatics
Essay - 3 pages - Medical studies
Dental Informatics is a relatively new field which has gained popularity in proportion to the increasing use of computer systems in dental practices. Sittig, Mirshner, and Maupome define dental informatics as "Application of computer and information science to improve dental...
Management Information Systems
Course material - 9 pages - Management
More and more, the company must handle a colossal amount of information which does not cease growing; whether they are sourced externally or produced internally, they are supported by an exponential increase in the capacity of computer systems. About 80% of a manager's working time is...
Case of Vasiliy Gorshkov and Alexey Ivanov
Case study - 2 pages - Educational studies
There have been reports of computer crimes of late in the news and the surprising realization is that children are becoming criminal masterminds online. There are readily available hacker tools that can be used by unskilled people to wreak havoc for financial gain or just for fun. The...
SWOT Analysis - IBM
Case study - 5 pages - ICT marketing
IBM is the acronym for International Business Machines Corporation, which is an American multinational corporation engaged in the manufacture of computer software, hardware, and computer products and services. The multinational dates back to 1911 through a merger of the Computing...
Primary School Setting - Local Area Network (LAN)
Essay - 10 pages - Computer science
Local Area Networking technologies utilizes the concept of Local Area Network (LAN), which refers to the data communication network that connects computers, terminals, and printers in a building or within geographically limited areas. Wireless links or wired cables could be used to connect...
Apple Inc's Ethical Philosophy
Case study - 4 pages - Business strategy
Apple Incorporation has been one of the most iconic business organizations linked to a charismatic, controversial but also founder, Steve Jobs. The current Chief Executive Officer of the company, Tim Cook, has to address issues and challenges faced by the corporation within a highly competitive...
How people perform their different jobs with the objective of determining what it is that they do, the things that they use and suggesting what they must know
Essay - 5 pages - Sociology & social sciences
Generally, task analysis involves the study of how people perform their different jobs with the objective of determining what it is that they do, the things that they use and suggesting what they must know. According to Chen (2001), in Human-Computer Interactions (HCI), the process of task...
