|
Enter your query below to search our database containing over 50,000+ essays and term papers
Search results 7741 - 7750 of 8016 matching essays
- 7741: The Internet
- ... an impact on the individuals of the world Where did all this technology begin, and how did it take the world by storm? The history of the Internet begins at the height of the cold war in the 1960's. People at the Rand Corporation, America's foremost military think tank, were trying to figure out the important strategic problem of how could US authorities talk to each other in the ...
- 7742: Technological Advancement
- ... environment. The dropping of the first atomic bomb in Nagasaki and Hiroshima in 1945, truly demonstrated for the first time the extent to which technology had advanced our defensive capabilities. From the end of World War II it was now safe to say that the human race possessed the capability to destroy all life on the planet, whereas before technology had allowed us only the capability to destroy large amounts of ...
- 7743: So, How Does It Work? The Wankel Rotary Engine
- ... of Rotary Machines The rotary combustion engine must not be confused with "rotary" aircraft engines which are piston cylinders arranged in a circle. The whole engine rotates. They came into vogue in the first World War. There are three main types of true rotary engines: 1) Wankel types based on eccentric rotors, 2) Scissor action types using vanes or pistons, and 3) Revolving block types ('cat and mouse' type). Engines are ...
- 7744: Freedom of Speech & Censorship on the Internet
- ... understand many of the questions raised an understanding of how the Internet originated is important. The internet grew out of developments in packet switching and distributed computer networks designed to be secure in time of war: distributed computer networks are less susceptible to damage because transmissions can be routed around the damage. Standard protocols ensure that any platform can be connected to this network and this meant that local area networks ...
- 7745: Against Federal Censorship of the Internet
- ... York City decided that the definition of "indecency" in the act is too vague to enforce. The Justice Department appealed the case to the Supreme Court, which heard arguments in the case, Reno v. American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) in the March of 1997. In a 7-2 decision handed down on June 26, 1997, the Court upheld the lower court's ruling and struck down the decency act. The Supreme ...
- 7746: Advances in AI
- ... is not a good predictor of achievement. This is in line with mountains of evidence gathered over the last two decades which debunk the myth that race is correlated with intelligence. The horrors of World War II awoke the world to the reality that associating inferiority with a particular race can have dire consequences. More recent sociological investigations have questioned the entire notion of race. Race can be seen as a ...
- 7747: Censorship And The Internet
- ... that "[Cyberspace] is about protecting and enlarging freedom of expression for all our citizens ... Ideas should not be checked at the border".14 Another person attending that conference was Ann Breeson of the Ame rican Civil Liberties Union, an organization dedicated to preserving many things including free speech. She is quoted as saying, "Our big victory at Brussels was that we pressured them enough so that Al Gore in his keynote ...
- 7748: The Computer Revolution
- ... of advertising to suit our particular buying patterns, along with more traditional queries of simpler, more coherent databases. With the amount of information held about our habits and behaviour increasing at an ever-faster rate, civil liberties groups are questioning the use of these types of targeted advertising which exploits our weaknesses and desires.
- 7749: Virtual Reality
- ... happening. If you're open to new ideas, and you have a good imagination, virtual reality may be a toy for you. What is VR? Virtual Reality grew out of flight simulation research during World War II and early computer graphics research in the 1960's. In 1965, computer scientist Ivan Sutherland published a paper describing "The Ultimate Display" and set the stage for research on the technology of Virtual Reality ...
- 7750: Hackers and Security. What Are the Effects of Data Encryption and Firewalls?
- ... of data into a form, called a cipher, that cannot be easily intercepted by unauthorized people (The New Hackers Dictionary). The use of encryption is as old as the art of communication. In times of war encryption was called 'code,' and could be employed to keep the enemy from obtaining the contents of transmissions. Simple ciphers include the substitution of letters for numbers, the rotation of letters in the alphabet, and ...
Search results 7741 - 7750 of 8016 matching essays
|
