Wearable computer

Dagmar Dolby is the widow of Ray Dolby, the founder of Dolby Laboratories. Ray and Dagmar met at Cambridge University where he was studying for his PhD, and she was doing a summer program. They got married in 1966. Ray Dolby passed away from leukemia in 2013, leaving a hefty inheritance to Dagmar. Ray also suffered from Alzheimer’s disease. He has always been a philanthropic person, so when he passed it was only natural to assume that Dagmar would continue running the Ray and Dagmar Dolby…

developed and funded by Advanced Research Projects Agency which is now Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency. A man by the name of Leonard Kleinrock was the main architect in the internet’s design, a brilliant man who made several contributions to computer science. The goal was to create a mass communication system that could handle a plethora of data if and when a nuclear war were to occur. This was the forerunner to the internet. A thing we now see as something for peace, education and…

electronic devices. Technology now allows people to seamlessly be connected and share information through various modes of communication such as cell phones, instant messaging, computers, as well as many other devices. Technological advances have also affected information management through the creation of computers and super computer chips that are able to process and analyze information at lightening speeds that no human ever could. Advances in touch screen software have quickly changed the…

With all this in mind, it is important to begin by examining what exactly is Artificial Intelligence and how robots will affect the economy and unemployment rates throughout society. Artificial Intelligence is the science of making computers that perform several different tasks that require human intelligence, such as visual perception, decision making, and translation between two different languages. According to the Atlantic News, in the article “Will Humans Still be Humans in an Age…

An in-depth very technical account of fundamentals of computing systems (used by many computer pioneers) can be found in “On the Principles of Large Scale Computing Machines.” Continuing on EDVAC’s model with some minor upgrades, copies were made and expanded to different locations in order to understand its architecture. Later AVIDAC was…

concerned about sacred and holy things, at least in the Western world. At the same time we are becoming more and more entranced with science and technology, what the ancient Greeks called τέχνη (Techne). Most people walk around with a fairly advanced computer that we call a smart phone. We now drive “Smart Cars” that have all the latest gadgets. Medical advances assist the human family in living longer and healthier and for most people science and technology are usually seen as “good”. Very few…

resounding yes. Many research studies show that the use of computers and smartphones improve many basic skills learned in your core classes as well as test scores, reading and writing skills and educators have come up with a large number of methods to use smartphones in their coursework and even in the real world employers constantly use smartphones to keep track of many different things. Peer reviewed research establishes that computers can enhance learning. An analysis ran by the office of…

Computer animation has always faced the challenge of recreating reality. The hypothesis of the uncanny valley is the hypothesis that the more human-like something is the more its subtle imperfections make people feel uneasy (Willie Bouwer et al. 186). Humans know what humans are supposed to be like and when the recreation does not meet their expectation the person rejects it and may even be revolted by it. The driving force behind Pixar is not creating realistic worlds but exploring new worlds…

The theory of Continuous Auditing was established by Vasarhelyi and Halper (1991). Continuous auditing entails the real-time monitoring and analysis of the entire population of records. The premise of this methodology is based on the concept of “audit by exception” where deviations (e.g. control variances) are flagged as alerts and forwarded to the responsible parties (e.g. management, internal auditors, business owners) for investigation. Continuous auditing has evolved from an academic theory…

In Ex Machina directed by Alex Garland, the main character Caleb is invited to the research facility unknowingly by his CEO Nathan. He invites Caleb to the research facility to determine if Ava is a real AI being able to think and act like a human by herself. Nathan has designed the AI, Ava, as a women. Caleb questions why she is a woman instead of having no gender, but Nathan says to see if it is a real AI that a gender identity would need to be formed. Nathan chose Ava to be a woman over a…