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Andy Warhol was born on August 6th, 1928 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Andy was an American artist who was a leading figure in the visual art movement known as “pop art”. Warhol’s "Campbell's Soup Cans" and "Gold Marilyn Monroe" made him famous worldwide, and his studio,known as "The Factory," became a magnet for artists of the 60s counterculture. Andy Warhol was the most successful and highly paid artist and photographer in New York. Although he’s best known for his iconic paintings of soup cans…

advancement in technology in 1984 and the definition of privacy in the 21st century seems like it emerged straight from the warnings of Orwell. While we may not be living in the landscape of Orwell’s imagination just yet, the altered meaning of privacy bears consequences. If a population believes that there is still true privacy, it leads to a misguided sense of safety. As a population that has individuals with mass amounts of critical information stored online and rooted within our…

Terrestrial Electricity and Magnetism Section at the Carnegie Institute in Washington, D.C. (Bartik, Rickman, and Todd 6). Mauchly showed engineering talent at a young age: "When neighbours had trouble with their wiring... they called John Mauchly." (McCartney 29) He earned near-perfect scores in high school and received an engineering scholarship to John Hopkins University. After becoming bored with…

computer scientists, with permission, hacked into a JEEP with the ability to change the speed, disable the breaks, and track the car’s location. If hackers had the ability to take over our weapons with this type of technology, the whole idea would completely backfire. The technology necessary to do this is also completely wireless, and the JEEP was hacked at a distance of ten miles…

John Nash is now a well-known mathematician. He is commonly recognized as the only mathematician to win the Nobel Prize and as the mathematician that the movie A Beautiful Mind is based on. While people are now aware of John Nash’s story, it was not previously well known. John Nash grew into a brilliant mathematician, was diagnosed with schizophrenia, and persevered through obstacles to continue working in mathematics. John Nash was born on June 13, 1928 in Bluefield, West Virginia where he…

Introduction Despite the remarkable progress in Malaysian economy over the last few decade, the next few years are extremely crucial to decide about its future stand. With the recent productivity slowdown, when technology imitation and cheap labor has a diminishing marginal returns, there is a growing concern if Malaysia has been falling into a middle income trap (Flaaen. A et.al 2013). While middle income trap is defined as the stagnated or slowed down growth of an economy for a long period of…

Victor Vasarely should be taught to students of Art History 1 because he fused elements of design and the Abstract Expressionist movement to achieve and nurture the Op Art movement in the 1960s. Considered one of the originators of Op Art for his visually intricate and illusionistic portraits, Victor Vasarely spent the course of a lengthy, critically acclaimed profession seeking, and contending for, a method of art making that was profoundly social. He placed major significance on the…

capable of human transportation. Over the next 250 years they became progressively more sophisticated, making use of modern technologies from gasoline internal combustion engines to modern hybrid powering. Automobiles have become an integral part of every day life from personal transport to commercial usage, and they have benefited from the exponential advancement in human technology to make them faster, safer, better looking and more environmentally friendly. But although many things appear…

Andrew Warhola or famously known as Andy Warhol was one of the most popular painter, printmaker, and filmmaker of his time. Andy’s art was mostly directed towards the pop culture public. People who really took interest in his art were Hollywood’s famous actors and actresses. Also people of modern ideas and innovators really sprung towards his style. He grew up in a very religious family that spent most of their time in church. His parents were Slovakian immigrants and Andy was the youngest of…

having scoped out the field and grown a reputation with its consumers puts it ahead of Uber in terms of experience, who only announced their partnership with Carnegie Mellon to research autonomous vehicles in early 2015 (Craig 2015). The company bills itself as an extremely consumer-focused, and was even ranked #1 by the Reputation Institute as its Global Corporate Social Responsibility list (Miceli 2015). Unfortunately, Google is behind in many other aspects. Their agreement with Fiat Chrysler…