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- 471: Speech Recognition Technology
- Speech Recognition Technology Speech recognition technology is a computer's ability to understand human language, formulate speech into text, and even develop responses to questions. Speech recognition first appeared during the 1970's, when early applications for its use first became known. Since then ... the speech market, where the caller's voice replaces punching in letters and numbers on the telephone keypad. The other applications of speech technology are for the use of consumers. The users' voice can give computer commands as well as dictate speech into text. All operating systems used today are Graphic User Interfaces (GUI's), but "future computers will have Speech User Interfaces, or (SUI's)" (Iversen, 3). The sudden surge ... read to them so they do not have to ask someone else. The Internet is one of the most active uses for voice technology. IBM released a home-page reader in Japan that uses a computer-synthesized male voice to read text off the Internet. It then uses a female voice when it encounters highlighted hyperlinks to other Web sites. Blind users can program a numeric keypad to move from ...
- 472: Internet Censorship
- ... Service Providers for internet access. ISP's usually have fast computers with dedicated connections to the internet. ISP's now more than ever are becoming the backbone of the internet. The average netcitizen uses their computer to call and ISP, and the netcitizens computer temporarily becomes a part of the internet. The user is free to browse or transfer information with others. Most ISP's even allow their users to set up permanent homepages on the ISP's computer for the whole internet community to view. This is where many ethical and moral questions arise regarding the internet. Not every user wants his homepage to deal with the spin rates of atoms or ...
- 473: Software And High School
- ... School The beginning of the 1990's is marked by the era of computers. Everywhere we look ,we see computers. They have become an essential part of our every day life. If the world's computer systems were turned off even for a short amount of time, unimaginable disasters would occur. We can surely say that today's world is heading into the future with the tremendous influence of computers. These machines are very important players in the game, the key to the success however is proper software (computer programs). It is the software that enables computers to perform a certain tasks. Educational systems in developed countries realize the importance of computers in the future world and therefore, emphasize their use in schools and secondary institutions. The proper choice of software is very important especially for beginners. Their first encounter with the computer should be exiting and fun. It should stimulate their interest in the computing field. First and foremost is the fact that computer software is a very important educational tool. Students in high schools experience ...
- 474: Bill Gates 2
- ... are many that hate and despise him. Either way he has managed to develop and successfully operate one of the worlds largest software manufacturers, Microsoft. Microsoft is so successful, and has such control over the computer industry that the U.S. government is filing a lawsuit accusing claiming a monopoly. How did Bill get himself into this and where he is now? Is it possible he has made too much money ... United Way International. Gates attended public elementary school in Seattle before moving on to the private Lakeside school in North Seattle. There he began cutting classes to hang out at all hours at his schools computer center. He liked computers and learned so much that he began programming them at age 13. Throughout his early teens he and his friend Paul Allen were writing computer programs working on ways to start a business. At 16 they sold a computer-runned system to monitor highway traffic, and made around 20,000 dollars off it, but business ended when the customers ...
- 475: Legalize It!
- ... to the point where there is no winner there needs to be a re-evaluation of how to solve the problem. In the case of the war against drugs, years of fighting have caused increased crime, overcrowding of prisons and the wasted use of money and resources with no results. It is now time to look at alternative methods to solving the nation's drug problem. I will be looking at ... them(Priver 28). This shows that legalization actually decreases use because of the increased emphasis on rehabilitation and the decrease of drug pushers. Such a dramatic decrease in drug dealers has not only resulted in crime reduction in England but there was also a decrease of drug use. It is true, legalization will not eliminate the major cause of violent crime; however, most argumentation which says that drug legalization will not decrease crime deals with the idea that most violent crime occurs as a result of alcohol use(Light). Since this is true, and legalization ...
- 476: Comaparison And Contrast Of Chapters In Understanding Organi
- The two articles to be compared are The Functions and Structure of Criminal Syndicates by Donald R. Cressey and Donald Cressey s Contributions to the Study of Organized Crime by Joseph L. Albini. Though the second article is merely an evaluation of the first, the goal is to show how Albini agrees with some of Cressey s points, and to present Cressey s evidence that Albini has rejected in a way that will challenge Albini s accusations. In the essay written by Donald R. Cressey deals with Cressey s view on the organization and function of organized crime. First, he touches on how Italians and Sicilians perceive people and the occupation they dwell in. Next, Cressey shows how local organized crime entities combined to form a commission to overlook each other, while within this he touches on important morale concepts, and the hierarchy or the family itself. Lastly, Cressey goes through each of organized crimes ...
- 477: Fraud
- ... living. It affects bank rates, insurance rates, credit card rates, and product costs. All companies that suffer losses factor in the loss to the premium and price the consumer pays. Fraud is a white collar crime because no one physically gets hurt. The victims of Fraud are usually: Small companies which have large clientele, such as Real estate, financial industry, and education industries. Fifty percent of fraud involves corporations with cash accounts. About ten percent of fraud arises from conflicts of interest, about five percent of fraud cases come from fraudulent statements. Presently the funds obtained by frauds are not recovered. Money obtained from crime is carefully hidden or spent avoiding recovery by the victims and authorities. It is extremely difficult to locate hidden money's in today's electronic age. Computers have increased the speed of transactions and thus often not leaving sufficient documentation to track a potential fraud. There are numerous ways of hiding fraudulent funds. Criminals often conceal illicit payments, launder their money, Hide it in complex computer programs, on/off in book transactions, off shore transactions, and net worth computations. Fraud is on the rise and the resources to combat it are on the decline, thus making fraud investigators jobs that ...
- 478: The History Of Electronic Musical Instruments
- ... elite music producing, and recording technologies. The third stage of electronic musics life, a stage that continues to grow even today as new technology is developed all the time, involves the use of the computer as a sound generator. The basic idea of computer music is the fact that the shape of any sound wave can be written on a graph, and this graph can in turn be described by a series of numbers (coordinates), each of which can ... numbers on the graph can be translated by a device known as a digital-to-analogue converter into a sound tape that can be played back on a tape recorder, or stored digitally on the computers hard-disk. As composers obviously do not think in terms of the shape of sound waves, computer programs were written that could translate musical specifics, including pitches, durations, and dynamics into the numbers ...
- 479: The Computer Revolution
- The Computer Revolution The computer revolution has brought about a total change in society, as we have known it. From the fifties and early sixties culture of make-do-and-mend to the materialistic, customer orientated society of today, IT ... longer spend even an hour without some form of interaction with IT based products. The IT revolution has had a pervasive growth from its start in the large corporations of the sixties. At first huge computer systems were solely the reserve of companies such as IBM and ICI who used their hugely expensive machines for payroll because processor power as very limited. This had an almost immediate effect as the ...
- 480: Crime Films
- Crime Films When looking at the crime film it is important to understand the nature of the films genre. The genre is a way for the audience to distinguish types of films. These are categorised together because of standard protocols developed for ... of Bonnie and Clyde funny, the audience is able to accept that the criminals may not be as depraved as they thought. After all, all share the same appreciation. The film depicts the life of crime with a flare for the romantic. Day and night share unencumbered skies. The visit with family and friends is depicted as light fun full of laughter. What could possibly be wrong with an idyllic ...
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