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That is no small change but you have to remember that it was spread out over a period of eight years. The budget covered a variety of expenses, including the rocket used to launch the spacecraft and salaries for a team of highly skilled engineers, programmers, managers, scientists and independent contractors. I believe that this was money well spent. Some of the most important technology advancements have been the result of space…

The work draws on interviews with men and women born in 1949/50 who attended two schools: one in the closed city of Saratov and the other in Moscow. Both were prestigious schools and most graduates went on to college and interesting careers: they make lucid and articulate companions to travel through the Soviet Union of the post-Stalin era. Raleigh’s monograph takes us through the different chapters of their lives – childhood, school, college, adult family life, work – and in doing so traces…

The Grandmother of Software Who Never Looked Back Clocks dot the workplaces of people spanning the globe, and the vast majority of those clocks move perpetually clockwise. However, Grace Hopper, a naval computer engineer, owned a clock that was the exception. Her clock moved counterclockwise (Cushman B6) and was an expression of her gravitation towards creative change instead of always solving problems in the same way. Throughout her career, her personal conviction shone through as she shook up…

The 21st century is marked and defined by rapid innovation in the science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) fields. However, in a recent study by the US Department of Commerce Women in STEM: A Gender Gap to Innovation revealed that women only hold less than “25 percent of all STEM jobs” even though women constitute “47 percent of the overall workforce” . The astonishing statistic is that only “13 percent” of all engineers in the US are women. So why does this matter? Engineers, in…

Most educated professionals would agree that the statement, “the next frontier is for more colleges to get comfortable releasing their information […] in uniform formats,” as stated in the article “Student-Built Apps Teach Colleges a Thing or Two” by Ariel Kaminer is a dangerous thought. Colleges do not need to allow any sort of third-party into the lives of their students without their consent. A release of data would be an inappropriate on the school’s behalf and could lead to devastating…

engineering industry throughout his lifetime. After attending Massachusetts Institute of Technology and obtaining a bachelor’s degree in applied mathematics in 1965, Yourdon went on to begin his career in computing (O 'Regan). He began work as a programmer for Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC). From the 1960s to 1990s, DEC was a leading vendor of computer systems. Under their direction, Yourdon managed to develop the “FORTRAN Maths library for the PDP-5 computer” as well as write “an assembler…

Jobs: A Role Model for Developers In my field of mobile development, I am going to face obstacles just like in any other profession. Each day I’ll be working in front of a computer, writing and revising code, as well as collaborating with other programmers or clients. It may be hard to imagine work-related catastrophes occurring in such a setting, but one role model of mine proves that they do happen, and such obstacles can be overcome. Steve Jobs was an ingenious developer. He founded the…

territory when playing video games, and because of this they do not get the same sense of belonging as male gamers. (Fox and Tang, 2014) There are many reasons why sexism in the gaming industry still exists, primarily the fact that female designers, programmers, and producers make up only a small part of the gaming industry’s work force, which has lead to the majority of female characters in games being heavily sexualised for male stimulation (Beasley and Standley, 2002). However, Sexism in the…

stuttered out. “I just, uh, had something in my eye.” Here’s the truth: there wasn’t anything in my eye. While it is true that video games are a collective group of pixels and AI, they’re programmed with a lot more than just code. Designers, programmers, and the rest of a video game’s staff spend months or even years assuring that their game appeals to emotions in one way or another. Even a mobile phone game can spark joy within their players. Don’t believe me? Believe science. According…

There's a process called concatenation. When the recordings are done-- after the recordings are done technicians and computers go in and extract sounds, put them back together and those sentences are what become Siri's answers. So it's the programmers that determine everything Siri says, but during all those recordings we're just reading all kinds of crazy things to get all the sounds in the language. And so basically the voices-- we really had no idea exactly what we were doing, but in order…