Last night I watched Matrix reloaded on cable and began to wonder whether or not Artificial intelligence (A.I.) was actually possible in this day and age. And if it was would we as human beings would want to actually further that technology. After hours of researching on the web I came to the conclu...

The second of three children born to a lawyer and a teacher, Bill Gates attended private school, where he discovered his interest in software. Bill Gate's introduction to computers occurred during his years at Lakeside, an all-boy private school. There, Gates joined the Lakeside Programmers Gro...

Mainframes were conceived from an idea from Charles Babbage, however it would be seventy years later. Under the direction of Howard Aiken in 1941 Harvard University developed the Mark I Calculator. Within five years the Mark I Calculator was outdone by the Electronic Numerical Integrator and Compu...

Who's adapting?Humans or Computers?Intelligent AgentsKelly B. YearoutApril 27, 2001In the past few years (1997 to present), there have been tremendous breakthroughs in technology associated with computers and software. The achievements all claim to be able to help people and businesses increase the...

Bill Gates, a young hacker with dreams to develop a software for computers. Computers for companies and computers for home users. He was not alone in this dream. He had a fellow friend to help him out, Paul Allen. His full name is William H. Gates. He is the chairman and chief executive of Microsoft...

INTRODUCTION We are living in the information age. Everything nowadays revolves around computers and electronics. A person in California can play another competitor in Iran a game of chess without leaving their home by the use of computers. Computers have become a lot smaller and much more fam...

Major innovation in the pursuit of leisure Transportation Although it doesn't come to many people minds transportation in itself can be a leisure activity. Most people don't realize how far we've come from the horse drawn carriage. Bikes – First bike invented by German...

Future of Computers The computers of the future are expected to be smaller, faster and smarter. For the past 20 years, CPU performance has doubled about every 18 months. The PowerPC will stay close to this pace for the next 10 years--a nearly 100-fold improvement in that time. The s...

ROBOTS: THEIR PAST AND FUTURE Past: It was approximately 3,000 years ago when the first signs of a robot appeared. The Iliad mentions a "mobile tripod" and in the myth Jason and the Argonauts a giant sentinel by the name of Talos is talked about. These weren't real life robots, so when did th...