The Evolution of the Internet In 1957, after the Soviet Union launched Sputnik, President Dwight D. Eisenhower introduced the Advanced Research Projects Agency, or ARPA. Soon after, Dr. J.C.R. Licklider of MIT wrote the first recorded description of the social interactions that could be enable...

"Beam me up, Scottie." This popular line from Star Trek was a demonstration of the advanced technology of the future. Though it was a fictional story, Star Trek became the universal vision of the future. As always reality tends to mimic fiction. Though our society has not quite resulted to living ...

Universitat St. GallenHochschule fur Wirtschafts-Rechts- und SozialwissenschaftenITM / MCMWahlteil Neue Medien / MedienarchitekturProf. Dr. Beat SchmidFILE SHARING SYSTEMEP2PVon Philipp BrunnerHans GeiserRoman HoggStefan KressBeat MeierOlivier SalaminAbgabetermin: 5. Dezember 2000InhaltsverzeichnisE...

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...

Electronic Commerce is defined by Webster's Dictionary as using computer networks to conduct business, including buying and selling online, electronic funds transfer, business communications, and using computers to access business information resources. The Electronic Commerce Association descr...

Remember the time when there was no Internet? Where advances in telecommunications and computing largely occurred side-by-side in the past, today, they converge in the Internet. Timesharing, the concept of linking a large numbers of users to a single computer via remote terminals, was developed ...

Introduction Information systems are created and maintained in order to manage vast amounts of useful data for an organization. These systems have, in the past, been confined to large mainframes and later to personal computer files. Most recently, commercial database networks have allowe...

The technology revolution is upon us. In the past, there have been many triumphs in the world of technology. To this date, people are able to communicate over thousands of miles with the greatest of ease. The Internet connects nearly 400 million users worldwide and is an essential part of how we wor...

A Brief History Of The Internet By default, any definitive history of the Internet must be short, since the Internet (in one form or another) has only been in existence for less than 30 years. The fi...

How Does Technology affect Sports?By Johnny Avalanche Technology is affecting sports more and more every day. The new aspects of technology are not just affecting the athletes, or even just the fans, but it is affecting everyone. Athletes, coaches, trainers, and the fans are affected more than anyon...

Starting out as a small military experiment some 35 years ago, the Internet is quickly becoming one of the most popular forms of communication. With a present population of about 40 million users world wide, it seems to have a very promising future. Uncensored and almost impossible to monitor, it's ...

"This site kicks-ass!!" Initially, the Internet was designed to be used by government and academic users, but now it is rapidly becoming commercialized. It has on-line "shops", even electronic "shopping malls". Customers, browsing at their computers, can view products, read descriptions, and som...

New times bring new crimes. Computers and the Internet especially, are growing everyday. A personal computer makes home, school, and office life tremendously easier with its expandable loads of information and possibilities. People of all ages are fi...

Censoring America would need a command and control network, linked from city to city, state to state and base to base. No matter how thoroughly that network was armored or protected, its switches and wiring would always be vulnerable to the impact of atomic bombs. A nuclear bombardment would reduce ...

The internet offers a huge wealth of information both good and bad, unfortunately the vary nature of the internet makes policing this new domain practically impossible. The internet began as a small university network in the United States and has blossomed into a vast telecommunications network span...

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Computer Science Government Intervention of the Internet During the past decade, our society has become based solely on the ability to move large amounts of information across large distances quickly. Computerization h...

PrivacyConsumers and the InternetIntroductionA trend of great concern is the partnership of major consumer directory services with companies that compile so called "public-records" databases. Such databases compile records from a wide variety of government agencies, including courts, vital statisti...