Headlines on Modern IT concepts

Nanotechnology:
1) Loebner Prize- the Loebner Prize is a competition where computer software tries to convince hums that they are real people Zebaware won the Loebner prize this year for Artificial Intelligence
2) Nanotechnology Inspired by Eyes of Moths and Wings of Cicadas to Lead to Anti-Reflective and Water Repellant Coatings and Better Solar Cells
3) Nanotechnology Leader Presents Talk About His Career Path From Engineer to Marketer to CEO
4) U. recruits 2 nanotechnology researchers
5) Testing tiny solutions
Hopkins gets $200K grant to study nanotechnology
Social Networking:
1) Social networking and the 50-plus
2) Social network woes
3) Don't sue social networking sites if you know what's good for you
4) Social networking sites 'useful for finding IT staff'
5) Mobile services company SpinVox has created a service for users to streamline their social network activity.
Computer Hardware:
1) Stealth Rally for Computer Hardware Stocks
2) US Federal Government Computer Hardware Expenditures, 2006-2011
3) Interview: The Future Of Computer Hardware
Riffware's Rob Witman discusses strengths of mobile devices, and future operating systems
4) California R-I improves computer technology levels
5) Research faces 'perfect storm' of data
Artificial Intelligence:
1) Hardware, Software, Civilized Chimps
2) Artificial intelligence suggests Russia are narrow favourites
3) Web Language and Artificial Intelligence Expert Joins Tetherless World Research Constellation
4) World depends on artificial intelligence
5) Are created men created equal?

Assistive Technologies

Assistive Technologies are devices for people with disabilities to enable them to do tasks that they would normally do without their disabilities. This helps them with tasks that they would otherwise not be able or would have difficulty to perform without the help of this technology. Some examples of Assistive Technologies are;
1) TTY- A communication device similar that sends text rather than voice for the deaf
2) Kurzweil Reader- A device created for a small machine to read text that the blind would otherwise not be able to read.
3) Larger text keyboards- Keyboards for the seeing impaired
4) Spell checkers and grammar checkers- This is assistive technology for those without good grammar and spelling
5) Brail Text- For those who cannot see and are unable to read this helps them to feel text rather than seeing it

The Unabomber

Ted Kaczinski's efforts in the 1990's was killing people that were tied to technology advancement. Something that is debated widely today is that should what he wrote be accepted today and something that should be considered or should we completely ignore his thoughts because he was a murderer. David Gelernter was a major role in the Yale Computer Science Program and was trying to make many advancements in technology at the time, therefore he was targeted by the unabomber.
Victims: Diogenes J. Angelakos, Buckley Crist Jr., Dr. Charles Epstein, Patrick C. Fischer, David Gelernter, John G. Harris, John E. Hauser, James McConnel, Thomas J. Mosser were his victims. He terrorized the country with bombs for 17 years and attacked head people of technological advancement.

Albert Fert & Peter Grunberg

Albert Fert is a French physicist and created a major breakthrough in gigabyte hard disks by discovering the giant magnetoresistance. Peter Grunberg is the other French physicist that helped Albert discover this breakthrough and they both won Nobel Peace Prizes for the accomplishments. They both impact my life everyday because of the discovery they made, we are now able to store data in the computers. We store data in computers everyday of our lives.

Pirates of Silicon Valley

After watching this movie I discovered many things about the computer business that I had not known. Apple and Microsoft got big strictly off of stealing. Steve Jobs stole the idea of the mouse and the computer interface from Xerox. Then next in the movie you witness Bill GAtes and Steve Jobs working together, but then Bill Gates steals many of Apples ideas and the movie is just the two stealing back and forth.

Intellectual Property Rights

Intellectual property is property that is granted to you instantly when you come up with an idea. When you write a paper, a blog or anything of that sort you it is instanly considered Intellectual property. Jammie Thomas in Minnesota is being tried for sharing music. She is the first of 26,000 similar cases and could potentially be sued up to 1.2 million dollars. She won't back down and didn't settle with a smaller price, she is not refusing to fight this case and her arguement is whether the companies own the music at all.

www.ready.gov

The website ready.gov cost $47 million and is created to prepare Americans in emergency situations. This site is open for public use and is just what the government wants you to be prepared to do in certain situations. This is to prevent Americans from panic, so that they learn to be calm and know how to handle situations. The information on this site is useful but is rarely used by Americans today. The website provides good information but families today do not even bother to look at this site. Therefore, this site is pretty much useless.