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    Teamwork is an important part of any success group progress and so we chose to include that in the assessment of our group and its processes over the quarter. We chose to focus on four of the group assignments for everyone to give their input on: Module 1 Individual Application Activity: Forming a Course Group, Identity Project Medium Approval and Draft Outline, Module 4 Group Application Activity: Group Process Discussion Activity, and Module 5 Group Application Activity: Analyzing Group…

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    It was February 1946 when John Maulchly presented to the public the ENIAC, a room-sized elaborator, that we can call the first computer.It was expensive, bulky, and oftentimes technically prohibitive machine. All that was requested from it was to compute numbers. Like Darwin theorized the evolution of man from the apes, computers evolved too. They got cheaper, smaller, and easy to use. They acquired monitors and peripherals, a lot of plug-ins peripherals that became a common possession for the…

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    1. Ada, Countess of Lovelace - Ada’s mother ordered that she studies mathematics to help discipline her and at 17 she was attending lectures from math and science wizard Charles Babbage. - She was able to observe his Difference Engine, which was capable of making complicated mechanical calculations, and eventually furthered his ideas to one which performed operations and was able of interchanging them independently from human control (Isaacson 2014). - She eventually pioneered computer…

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    In Programming The Post-Human: Computer science redefines “life,” Ellen Ullman uses captivating, argumentative, and reflective language in order to convey the complications of making an intellectual, sentient machine and explores the unanswered, unconventional questions about humans themselves to computer enthusiasts and thinkers. Her use of questions to captivate and engage readers is noteworthy. Likewise, observations, comparisons, contrasts, and analogies support to make her argument. Careful…

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    Technology is the major factor in holding innovation back, the concept of an integrated computer had been conjured up many decades before it could actually be made. The microprocessor would have never been invented if the ENIAC never proved that computers had real life commercial applications, in the ENIAC’s case it proved to be more accurate than a human at calculating arithmetic need for the armies firing…

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    Daniel Bollinger 11/26/2014 ENGL-2116-008-Fall Ethics of AI (Artificial Intelligence) The first desktop computers were invented in 1977. Computers have been invented within one hundred years of today, and have become a part of our lives and daily routines. Even in the last decade computers have gotten smaller and more convenient. They can store more memory, have the ability to do more tasks, all taking less time than the previous version. Technology has been ingrained in American culture. The…

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    The definition of the word technology is “the use of science in industry, engineering, etc., to invent useful things or to solve problems”. Throughout history, there have been many technological advances. They were created to make people’s lives easier or, as the definition states, to solve problems. I am going to describe the most important technological advances made in the pre-modern and modern eras (1450-present). I will also explain how technological advances changed society for better or…

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    computers. Two elements of hardware in particular have progressed as generations go on: data transfer and storage. One challenge for computer engineers from the start was deciding how to transfer data through the computer. The first computer, the ENIAC, required 18,000 vacuum tubes to do so, and weighed about 20 tons. Because of its huge size, its power consumption was 150,000 watts (Piguet). Evidently, size and power consumption were major issues from the start. Vacuum tubes were a continuous…

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    “software is the series of instructions that tells the hardware how to perform tasks” (Shelly). The two, hardware and software, are the two key technologies in computing. However, for a long time they were inseparable. To be clear, machines like ENIAC (Electronic Numerator, Integrator, Analyzer and Computer) and…

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    It’s a popular opinion these days that computers and the human brain are essentially equal in terms of how they work. With the growing rate of technology, it may one day be possible for people to upload their brains into a computer, and essentially live forever. The benefits of such technology are huge. A failing or aging body is obsolete if we can become mechanical and still retain our original selves. Disease would be a thing of the past. Computers however, are not free from flaws themselves.…

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