Hackers

Steve Wozniak
John Draper
Kevin Mitnick

Steve Wozniak is a computer engineer and a co founder of apple computers. He was one of the first hackers and established the base of these skills that are used all over the world today.

John Draper AKA "Captain Crunch"- captain crunch with the help of a blind friend helped Draper to figure out that if they could whistle into a phone at the same frequency that AT&T uses that they could hack the phone line and make free phone calls.

Kevin Mitnick- is a computer hacker and a convicted criminal in the United States because of his hacking. Mitnick was convicted in the late 90's of gaining access to computer networks and stealing intellectual property. He spent 5 years in prison.

Although at the time these three guys were "phone phreaks" they set the way for what is known today as hacking.

TED

Our generation today lives in a way where they read and write. Today the youth creates T.V. and remakes things from ideas they get from someone elses work. Kids today are living their lives illegally and the older generation needs to learn to accept this because their ways arent going to change they can just be monitored slightly and kids are going to do illegal stuff on the web no matter what.

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Net Neutrality & Android

Net Neutrality is what we have today that makes the internet public and allows anyone to visit any site on the internet. There is a huge debate today on whether we should have net neutrality, companies such as; comcast, verizon and at&t want to privatize the internet and want people to pay to visit certain sites.

The new google phone is called android. This phone will be an operating system that will be able to run on many different phones. Google is making this software that will be free and can run on any other phones. Google has 33 partners to help with this new software.

DARPA Contest

A Chevy Tahoe made by Carnegie Melon University (CMU) won the Darpa contest that was held in California. Carnegie Melon walks away with a $2 million grand prize.

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?