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  • Development Of Computer Science In Two Countries
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    THE DEVELOPMENT OF COMPUTERS IN UKRAINE AND THE FORMER USSR The government and the authorities had paid serious attention to the development of the computer industry right after the Second World War. The leading bodies considered this task to be one of the principal for the national economy. Up to the beginning of the 1950's there were only small productive capacities which specialized in the producing accounting and account-perforating (punching) machines. The electronic numerical computer engi...
  • Super Computer And Machines
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    Utopia can be defined as a place immune from inhumane treatment and absent of the hardships of society, where the population is blindfolded from fear, anxiety, and general negative aspects of human nature. A utopia can be generalized as that perfect society. This is one type of a drastic society. There is another, more appalling type of society, that of a dystopia. A Dystopia is nor a fairyland or the promised-land like the utopia is, it looks at the chaos, anarchy, rebellion and disorder of a s...
  • Neurons Fire Action Potentials
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    Describe the basic physiology of a neuron. Detail the manner by which neurons fire action potentials and how neurons communicate with one another across synapses. Outline the process of how an action potential occurs and hoe it propagates down an axon. Explain how chemical transmission occurs at synapses and how this allows neurons to activate of inhibit one another. [Picture from "Answer to Neuron Structure"] Neurons are the basic units of the brain. Above is a picture of a prototypical neuron ...
  • Portrayal Of Intelligent Machines In Films
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    In this essay I am going to discuss about the topic:" Science fiction often plays off the real against the artificial, either in the form of humans versus non-human (androids, cyborgs, synthetics), or the world versus the non-world (cyberspace, inner-space, intentional space) ". I have chosen the films "The Matrix" and "Bicentennial Man " An explosion in information access and exchange is fueling the Information Superhighway that was created as a result of the computer revolution. If technology ...
  • Superior Intellectual Capacity Over The Brute Creation
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    In 1792 Mary Wollstonecraft in her work A Vindication of the Rights of Woman posed the question, 'In what does man's pre-eminence over the brute creation consist?' She answers, 'In reason and virtue by which mankind can attain a degree of knowledge. ' Today, no one would argue that man and woman are not intellectually equal, or that humans have a superior intellectual capacity over the brute creation, but what would they say about humankind versus the machine? We have always felt ourselves super...
  • Your Brain Into A Neural Net
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    In the Age of Spiritual Machines Ray Kurzweil Once, the Earth was ensconced by an ocean of nothing, a vast wasteland of "molecular soup". It was the union of these molecules, however that soon filled that sea with what we now refer to as life. Deep within the single-celled organisms which began to populate the planet was a very basic program which soon learned to replicate itself. It then began creating more cells, and more still. In time, the program developed to adjust the full being to its su...
  • Barber About Machines
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    Rage Against the Machines In Kurt Vonneguts first novel, Player Piano, he brings up quite a few interesting points. His portrayal of a United States that has become a slave to its own ingenuity is somewhat entertaining. What really got to me was the fact that its easy to imagine people acting the way they did. As a reader I can see myself making those very same mistakes, and being just as childish as the ghost shirts, as conniving as Shepherd, and as manipulative as Rev. Lasher. Maybe in our soc...
  • Determination
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    Determination am a very dependable person. When I start a project I concentrate and focus in it. I use my determination in all parts of my life. In school my determination has allowed me to achieve many academic accomplishments. In an engineering course I was given an assignment to design a house using Autocad. This house had to be designed to all of the state building codes. My teacher had set up many different requirements for the project. It had to be an original design with four different ty...
  • Electronic Delayed Storage Automatic Computer
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    History of Computers Introduction: The electronic computer has now been used commercially for less than 25 years. It grew out of a search lasting centuries for a more accurate, faster way to perform calculations. Primitive and ancient man used his fingers, shells, beads, sticks, and other objects to keep track of numbers and sums. The development of paper and writing instruments made it easier to record data, but gave little aid in manipulating it. Manual Devices: A computer is sometimes defined...
  • Nanotech Development
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    Curtis Shephard Nanotechnology: Immortality or total annihilation Technology has evolved from ideals once seen as unbelievable to common everyday instruments. Computers that used to occupy an entire room are now the size of notebooks. The human race has always pushed for technological advances working at the most efficient level, perhaps, the molecular level. The developments and progress in artificial intelligence and molecular technology have spawned a new form of technology; Nanotechnology. N...
  • Installation Of A Computer Program
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    Through the use of his famous Chinese room scenario, John R. Searle tries to prove there is no way artificial intelligence can exist. This means that machines do not posses minds. The debate between those who are in favor of strong and weak artificial intelligence (AI) is directly related to the philosophy of mind. The claim of weak AI is that it is possible to run a program on a machine, which will behave as if it were a thinking thing. Believers of strong AI say that it is possible to create a...
  • Computers With Artificial Intelligence
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    One of the "characters" in the 1968 film 2001: A Space Odyssey (directed by Stanley Kubrick) is a computer called HAL 9000. In addition to having a highly developed artificial intelligence, this computer is shown to have certain human emotions. The computer has a great deal of pride in its own abilities, and this leads to it having feelings of jealousy. At one point in the film, HAL lies about a malfunction on the outside of the spaceship. The computer then proceeds to kill all of the crewmember...
  • Charles Babbage And His Calculating Engines
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    CHARLES BABBAGE Hassan Kiwai Mr. Johnson APCS 8.30. 00 Charles Babbage was born at Walworth, Surrey England in December 26, 1791. He achieved many great feats and belonged to many very distinguished groups before he died in October 18, 1871. Many people consider him to be the grandfather of computer science due to his great works with his Difference Engine (1821), which printed tables of polynomials, and his Analytical Engine (1856), which was intended as a general symbol manipulator. Babbage gr...
  • Real Time Computational Devices
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    A Brief History Modern electronic computers, as we know them today, have many of their roots in the distant past. The Virtual Computer History Museum at Virginia Tech presents a Timeline of Events in Computer History at their website which offers an overview of the development of the computer which you may be interested in consulting for more detail on their early incarnations. The abacus can be considered a calculator of sorts, and slide rules and other mechanical calculators were created in th...
  • Electronic Logical Machine The Colossus
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    Prepared for Victor Smolensk y IDS 375 By Luis Rio December 6, 2002 TABLE OF CONTENTS Introduction 1 The story of the colossus 3 contribution of the colossus 5 Conclusion 7 Appendix A Bibliography V THE COLOSSUS: A GREAT INVENTION OF WWII Introduction Excellent decisions consist of good information. For ages people have needed to do arithmetic calculations and has found them time consuming and difficult. Many historic technological inventions were introduced including the British Colossus. Durin...
  • Turing Machine
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    Possibly an inadequate title, the Founder of Computer Science, is what Alan Mathis on Turing is called by the technological community. Born in a nursing home in Paddington, London with the strong desire to learn, Turing would soon grow to be one of the most ingenious mathematical logicians ever to grace his field. Turing was a man who accomplished his successes without outside motivation to do so. His family, being an upper-middle-class group with no scientific knowledge or interests, left Turin...
  • Physical Action Of The Braievokes Awareness
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    Artifical Intelligence Artificial Intelligence Artifical Intelligence Essay, Research Paper Artificial Intelligence Artificial intelligence is a highly debatabltopic. You either believe that it may be achieved or think ican't, and the middle is a little shady. Artificial Intelligence the study to create a machine that can act like a human brain including emotions, and consciousness. This speech wil cover the subject of if it can ever be achieved and at wha level. This would be a giant technologi...

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