Supercomputer

“Big Brother is watching you,” read the posters displayed throughout Oceania, the setting of George Orwell’s novel 1984. In Orwell’s eerie prediction of the future, citizens are monitored at all times by the government and can be arrested for suspicions of having thoughts that go against the government. Although Thought Police are not patrolling the streets and Big Brother has not yet risen to power, government policies such as the Patriot Act and advancements in technology that allow for the…

replication of this experiment. The differential expression analysis will be performed through bioinformatics tools including HT-Seq, TopHat and other scripts that I will write in the bash programming language. This analysis will be performed on the supercomputer in Dr. Kane’s Lab since it has the processing power and memory to handle this amount of…

One of the very important scientific breakthroughs in history was landing on the moon, or the mission known as Apollo 11. Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin were the two of the three people on this mission it took three days from lift off to landing on the moon. It was the first mission that put a man on the moon but was not the last. There has been twelve people who have landed on the moon including Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin. All astronauts who have been on a lunar landing mission have been…

However, it would take a supercomputer billions of years to break the message of a more effective system. The news has recently been addressing the ability to break codes much more quickly than in the past because computing power and speed is continually increasing. This poses the…

whether it is a book, video or musical composition, who owns the work, and who should receive royalties or sales of the work? One example of why this question is becoming relevant today is a recently published cookbook created in part by IBM 's AI supercomputer, Watson. The program received wide media coverage in 2011 when it achieved a record-breaking championship victory on the TV show, "Jeopardy." Shortly after…

In Robots and Minds, William Lycan tries to show that it is feasible that robots can have the same kind of mind that humans do, under the condition that machines are able to have consciousness just like humans. He further expounds this theory by introducing AI, claiming that researchers have already designed machines that can do human-functioning activities (such as reading books, playing chess, etc.) Lycan concludes that all of these actions are considered to be intelligent behavior in human…

We went from computers the size of a classroom to a supercomputer small enough to fit in your pocket. Every day the world of technology and the world of education grows closer. As pinker argues that it declines student progression, I would say if taught in the right manner, it can rapidly increase the progression…

“Life can get hard and things can go wrong, but no matter what, you've got to stay strong.”(-Unknown) Not many people have heard of Clarence ‘Skip’ Ellis, but the people that have, have been amazed by his story of perseverance, which caused him to break the social norms in America in the 60’s and 70’s. Clarence, known by his close family and friends as ‘Skip,’ was born in Chicago, Illinois in 1943. He was born into a family filled with poverty being one of five children being raised by a single…

obtained a PhD in Applied Mathematics there. He worked at IBM (International Business Machines) and was responsible of the 360 IBM system and OS 360 development. To add, scientist also worked on the IBM 7030 Stretch, which is a transistorized supercomputer. It is said that a phrase “computer architecture” is founded by Brooks at the time he worked at IBM. In this paper, I will talk about the book that Brooks wrote, which is about his work experience at IBM and is called “The Mystical Man Month”.…

An executive editor of Wired, Kevin Kelly in his “Better than Human: Why Robots Will – and Must – Take Our Jobs,” published on December 24, 2012 address the topic of how robot can improve our lives and argues that robots will execute human’s jobs in the future. Furthermore, Kelly acknowledges how robots replacing human for their jobs is similar to the industrial revolution in the 1800s. As Kelly supports this claim by providing the abilities a robot has, he predicts automation will replace…