5 Notes

1. Charles Babbage and Augusta Ada King, the countless of Lovelace,imagined the construction of mechanical computers that would automatically and reliably perform these tasks. But it took about 125 years for engineers to turn this vision into reality.
2. In 1939 a young German named Konrad Zuse completed the ZI, the first programmable, general-purpose digital computer.
   
3. In 1993 Iowa stae university professor John Atanasoff and graduate student clifford Berry created the Atanasoff- Berry computer ABC, when he apptoached the international buisness machines, he was told IBM would never be interested in an eletronic machine.
4. The transitor was invented in 1948 as a substitute for the vaccume tube, and transistors first appeared in computers eight years later...
5. integrated circuits rapidly replaced transitorsfor the same reasons that trasitors superseded vacume tubes.

• Reliability
• size
• speed
• efficiency
• cost

Article 2

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/31/technology/31texting.html?ref=technology

This Article just basically talks about texting while driving, and how the Governors Highway Safety Association is acting to ban it. They just give stats to show the risks of texting while driving, and the affect that it can have on society. There is a five second delay when you text, and in five seconds you can pass a whole football feild by car on a highway, which can cause accedents. They say this new law which has not come out yet will decrease car accedent by a lot, and will garantee a new type of safety to the drivers community.

Summary of tec news article.

This article talks about Nokia's new Laptop. The laptop is going to be out very soon. It should range from 700-1000 dollars, it is a 10", and it has a 3g network, with gps, and so much cool stuff. They still donnt know what windows this laptop is going to use, Probably windows seven as was said

TEC NEWS (Nokia laptop)!!!!

http://gadgetwise.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/08/24/nokia-dives-into-the-netbook-pool/

TEC NEWS (Nokia laptop)!!!!

http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/26/nokia-following-booklet-3g-with-arm-based-smartbook-in-mid-2010/

Tec Reflect

Computers are really a miracle. And Tecnology is also a miracle, however tecnology changes, thus changing our lives. But focusing on computers. They are probably a neccessaty in our lives. We research, we type, we surf, and we enjoy ourselves. It is a combination of everything in one. We can access our banks, and pay bills, and do so much. To me there are still mysteries to be solved in it. We all know how to use the computer, but do we know how everything is proccessed through it. How does the emaling work, we know something is being transfered from here to there, but how. These are all mysteries of the computer. There is also a negative side to computers: "Hacking". even though there is protection but there is all kinds of new tecnology that can strip away privacy, even in ones own home. We recently found out that there is a way to listen to conversations at home usiong the cell phone. These are all negativities that the tecnology supplies us, including the good that it gives.

THE SMART BORD

Section 1: The smart board is a machine used at schools, or buisnises. It works as a projector and a touchscreen. The smat board solves the problem with buying new boards with markers, and running around the school to find a projector.

Section 2:

• Equal Access: The smart board is for everyone, the school dos not descriminate against thje users of the smart board. You can be Asian or African, they are all welcome to the pleasure of using the Smart Board
• People and Machine: There is also an interaction between the smart board and human beings, first since we are its creators, and second we are the ones who actually touch it, to write stuff on it.

Section 3:

HEALTH: if you back hurts, you can use the smart board to move around freeley so the back pain can go away, instead of standing all day.