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Although computer games are now a form of entertainment, they actually grew out of a series of efforts to develop computer-based methods to represent the natural world, abstract complex activity, and analyze organizational problems. The game of chess quickly captured the attention of early computer researchers. Incorporating computer simulation technology in a competitive, interactive story can command...
Some 30 or 40 years ago, when computers were becoming established in business and government, these new machines drew complaints from people who disliked the standardization that they imposed. Global trade has indeed destroyed local industries but, at the same time, it has generally given the world a higher standard of living. Like the computer age, the era of global trade has come with a new sense...
Governments and businesses in many advanced countries complain about the current skills shortage. They blame it for high wages, lowered economic growth, outsourcing, the need to import skilled workers, the failure of medical care, the high rates of car accidents and unemployment, and pretty well any instance of technical malfunction and project failure. The irony of this is that digital technology...
Early Internet users occasionally encountered lone outposts where a dedicated individual was trying to use digital communication for some noble purpose, much like a missionary trying to teach hymns to the natives. These outposts were not quite blogs nor even personal Web pages, though they pointed in the direction of both. They were usually just a collection of writings - crude, simple essays that...
We can visualize present day IT education as an information sea in which all the natural maritime phenomena form and grow. The Internet and mobile technologies represent virtual hurricanes and storms. Object-oriented programming represents a steady rainfall, and aspect-oriented programming provides the thunderstorms. In this environment, old "sailing" practices like memorization and reciting...
At one time, supercomputing, a term that was synonymous with the Cray-1, was considered to be the best deal in town. However, by the 1990s, manufacturers began to question the need to continue the development of high-speed computers, turning their attention instead to the potential for developing a "high-capacity and high-speed national research and education computer network."
Computing as a discipline can be traced to the 1960s, when universities such as Stanford and CMU established computer science as a stand-alone department. Since its inception, computing has been constantly evolving as a vibrant discipline. Here, I make 10 observations on its recent development, which can serve as references for computing stakeholders - including academic leaders, faculty members,...
Teaching a computer science course to a group of Peruvian engineers provides valuable insights into the development of computing technology in Latin America.
The many collaboration and document-management products available today help establish controls over document workflows. Essentially, these applications automate information categorization, filing, version control, and historical tracking. The advent of products that help find the necessary but long-forgotten documents needed to complete a task has spurred demand for these applications. Organizations...
Despite years of computing progress, today's systems experience spectacular and all-too-frequent crashes, while many enormously expensive projects fail to produce anything useful. Of equal importance, and potentially more damaging, are the misleading smaller defects we tend to miss. From time to time, we must remind ourselves that the underlying quality of the software that our results and progress...
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