Homebrew Computer Club

The Imitation Game was developed in 1950 by Alan Turing. The goal of the game is to proof that a machine can think. In the game the interrogator must determine which one of the participants is a human and which one is the machine. He states that if a machine passes the test, there will be no question that the machine is undeniably thinking. He rises the argument of consciousness, the objection of Lady Lovelace’s, his responses and leave as with the question if the test is a good way to tell if a…

Modern video games role in gender socialization Karen E. Dill and Kaythern P. Thill stated “Both the content of video games and the role of video games in popular culture have changed profoundly since the first games appeared on the market in the 1970s.” and everyday this is proven more and more true. To clarify games from the 1970s to present day is considered modern, games generally before then were text based or demonstration of technological ability (examples: 1962 Spacewar, 1966 Periscope,…

Not only parents everyone should have such responsibilities, let it be the teacher, grandparents and so forth. Today, many computer labs at schools have imposed restrictions on the sites that can be accessed. This ruling can also be extended to households, by either adding privacy settings or constantly checking the search history to know the sites that the children have been…

28th January. We had one agenda. We spent our evening glued to our laptops. Offended. Disgusted. Amused. We watched the AIB Knockout right to the finish and some of us, twice. This roast was the talk of the town. Over the last week, social media has been flooded with an outrage on the negative feedback that the AIB Roast received. Rants on how the views of our politicians are regressive. How everyone just needs to “chill” (as they say in today’s fast paced world). How it is a clear violation…

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The Evolution of Cooperation, Robert Axelrod Background information about the author and the book Robert Axelrod is an American political scientist currently teaching Public Policies and Political Sciences at the University of Michigan, where he is the Walgreen Professor for the Study of Human Understanding. After graduating in Mathematics from the University of Chicago, he studied at Yale University, where he obtained a MBA and a PhD in Political Science. Axelrod has received countless awards…

In his iconic book, “The Cathedral and the Bazaar: Musings on Linux and Open Source by an Accidental Revolutionary” (Raymond , 1999), contrast Raymond between two different work (or software develop) methods: the Cathedral model and the Bazaar model. According to the Cathedral model, which is more common in the commercial software companies, the develop of software is done by an exclusive group of software developers and the end user is getting (or buying) a close package with readymade source…

“Mathematics” is an open concept with many possible meanings. In Philosophical Investigations, Ludwig Wittgenstein(1992) talks about the variety of language games, and “mathematics” may operate in a huge number of such games. While mathematics as a research field includes a vast domain of unsolved issues and conceptions in development. Well-intended definitions, as suggested by classic positions within the philosophy of mathematics – where logicism describes mathematics as a further development…

Approximately two years ago I was able to make a dream of mine become true. Countless hours of researching and shifting between different parts lead me to craft a work of my own. Building a computer from scratch was such a great accomplishment that as I look back at it I have realized it was more influential than what I had speculated. Realizing that this accomplishment symbolized the introduction of myself from childhood to adulthood. As a result even my Mother and my Aunt provided me with a…

Have you ever tried to carry on a conversation with somebody but they are too busy texting or playing on their phone or device in hand? Have you ever been ignored by a friend to “hang out” because they were too busy playing a video game? Technology is growing at a faster rate than it ever has before with new devices such as smartphones, laptops, televisions, etc. The real question though is; are we depending on it too much? Scientists and even our everyday, ordinary person is coming up with new…