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- 801: Computers and Society
- ... education, research, and warfare. The first mechanical calculator, a system of moving beads called the abacus, was invented in Babylonia around 500 BC. The abacus provided the fastest method of calculating until 1642, when the French scientist Pascal invented a calculator made of wheels and cogs. The concept of the modern computer was first outlined in 1833 by the British mathematician Charles Babbage. His design of an analytical engine contained all ... Integrator and Calculator. Designed by two American engineers, John Mauchly and Presper Eckert, Jr., ENIAC was first used at the University of Pennsylvania in 1946. The invention of the transistor in 1948 brought about a revolution in computer development, vacuum tubes were replaced by small transistors that generated little heat and functioned perfectly as switches. Another big breakthrough in computer miniaturization came in 1958, when Jack Kilby designed the first integrated ... circuit. It was a wafer that included transistors, resistors, and capacitors the major components of electronic circuitry. Using less expensive silicon chips, engineers succeeded in putting more and more electronic components on each chip. Another revolution in microchip technology occurred in 1971 when the American engineer Marcian Hoff combined the basic elements of a computer on one tiny silicon chip, which he called a microprocessor. This microprocessor the Intel 4004 ...
- 802: The Computer Underground
- ... ject you have set out to construct. If, in a study of the field of lawyers, for instance, you do not draw the President of the Supreme Court, or if, in an inquiry into the French intellectual field of the 1950s, you leave out Jean-Paul Sartre, or Princeton University in a study of American academics, your field is destroyed, insofar as these personas or institutions alone mark a crucial position ... RICO: Modern Weaponry against Software Pirates." Computer Law>Law Journal, 5(Fall): 143-162. Denzin, Norman K. 1988. "Blue Velvet: Postmodern Contradictions." Theory, Culture and Society. 5(June): 461-473. "Doctor Crash." 1986. "The Techno-Revolution." PHRACK, I(6): Phile 3. "EB" %anonymous computerphile%. 1990. Circulated electronic letter, February. Featherstone, Mike. 1988. "In Pursuit of the Postmodern: An Introduction." Theory, Culture and Society, 2-3(June): 195-215. Frazer, James G ... as 'Regime of Signification.'" Theory, Culture and Society, 5(June):311-336. Latimer, Dan. 1984. "Jameson on Post-Modernism." New Left Review, 148(November/December): 116-128. Levy, Steven. 1984. Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution. Garden City: Doubleday. Lyotard, Jean-Francois. 1988. The Postmodern Condition: A Report on Knowledge. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press. Manning, Peter K. (forthcoming). "Strands in the Postmodernist Rope: Ethnographic Themes." in N. Denzin (ed.), ...
- 803: Egypt-israeli Conflict And The
- ... revolutionary overthrow of the government. In 1949 nine of the Free Officers formed the Committee of the Free officers' Movement and in 1950 Nasser was elected chairman. In 1952, the Free Officers Movement led a revolution in Egypt and took power, under the newly formed Revolutionary Command Council (RCC) , with Muhammad Naguib as president and commander in Chief. Almost all leader in the RCC were soldiers, many who had fought in ... to attack the Canal from across the Sinai Desert. When Israel neared the canal, Britain and France would issue an ultimatum for an Egpytian and Israeli withdrawal from both sides of the Canal, and Anglo-French force would then occupy the canal and prevent further fighting, and keep in open for shipping. Israel did not agree to this plan, unless first Britain and France agreed to destroy the Egyptian Air Force ... allies of the invasion, and realized that it could not allow the Soviet Union to appear as the champion of the Third World against Western Imperialism. Thus, the US put pressure on the British and French to withdraw. While France and Britain withdrew, Israel was very reluctant. Eisenhower placed a great deal of pressure on Israel with withdraw from all of its territorial acquisitions, and even threatened sanctions if Israel ...
- 804: Engineering
- ... of life. Mechanical engineering along with civil engineering provide society with a better standard of living. Mechanical engineering evolved many centuries after civil engineering. Its roots are imbedded with the advent of the Industrial Revolution. Mechanical engineering is a direct offshoot of the Industrial Revolution. With inventions of machines such as the steam engine and the locomotive, there became a need for an advanced field to develop and produce new and complex machines. The newest of the four main engineering ... divide. Another scientist, Blaise Pascal, invented a machine in 1642 that added and subtracted without outside assistance. Later, a German mathematician, Gottfried Leibniz, enabled multiplication on Pascals machine. In the early 19th century a French inventor, Joseph-Marie Jacquard, devised a loom that was a specialized type of computer. His machine punched cards to program patterns that made woven fabrics by the loom. His looms are still used today, ...
- 805: Eloquent Boldness
- ... The passage, A house divided against itself cannot stand, is masterful evidence appealing to logic. This statement forced the delegates to agree due to the fact that past civilizations that have fallen, such as the French during the French Revolution because the nation was divided against itself. Lincoln also uses repetition to strengthen the evidence appealing to reason. This is exemplified though frequent reference to the, care not policy posed by Senator Douglas towards ...
- 806: William Penn
- ... Quakers left a huge impact on Pennsylvania and the entire nation. The Quakers are a religion that originated in England in protest of the Anglican Church's practices. The man in charge of this religious revolution was George Fox.1 He believed that God didn't live in churches as much as he lived in people's hearts.2 In that state of mind, he went out into the world in ... for forty years after his mother's death. He ruled for almost as long as his father, but like the rest of his family, he left the Quakers and joined the Church of England. The French and Indian War broke up the friendly relationship of the Quakers and the Indians. Although a majority of the Indians stayed on the Englishss side, the others went to the French side. After the war, the Native Americans didn't agree with the Quakers, causing tension. They no longer got along. This caused violence on the part of the Indians. One tribe, on a visit ...
- 807: The History of the Soviet Union
- ... do not leave an impact on the country's well-being. In December of 1825, an uprising from the populace occures when they demand changes to the economic system. With the development of the American, French and Spanish constitutions, the serfs now demanded the abolishment of the monarchy dictatorship, communal ownership of land and many other civil and social reforms. Unfortunately, their rebellion was quickly dismantled by the Czar's military ... the leader of the KGB and the Union. At age 54, Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev emerged to inherit the economically devastated Union and began establishing political reforms that the world had not encountered since the Bolshevik revolution of 1917. With radical ideologies such as Glasnost (Openess) and Perestroika (long-range capitalistic restructing), along with improved foreign trade and diplomatic association with the United States (elimination of most ballistic nuclear missiles), the reformist ... face of his dominion. Gorbachev's economical strategies had transformed the Soviet Union from a desolate oppressed wasteland to a socially liberated jungle. Such radical policies and reforms not only encouraged the development of a revolution, but the global transformation of Europe as we know it. As the hard-line coup was formed in early 1991, Gorbachev managed to hold on to power thanks in part to his liberal nemesis, ...
- 808: Thomas_Jefferson
- ... 18th-century thought that emphasized the possibilities of human reason. A Virginia aristocrat, he had the time and resources to educate himself in history, literature, law, architecture, science, and philosophy; as diplomat and friend of French and British intellectuals, he had direct access to motivation and the opportunity to apply Enlightenment political philosophy to the task of nation- building. Theoretician of Independence During his 20s, Jefferson read voraciously in Enlightenment philosophy ... Jefferson's three appointments to the Supreme Court, made between 1804 and 1807, were all strong nationalists and upholders of judicial independence During his first term his lifelong interested in the West and in American-French relations prompted his major presidential achievement, the purchase from France of Louisiana-all the western land drained by the Missouri and Missisipi rivers-and the organization of an expedition by William Clark and Meriwether Lewis ... alienated New England, which lived by foreign trade. Retirement After leaving office he retired to Monticello where he lived until his death on July 4, 1826, corresponding with John Adams about the great issues of revolution and constitutinalism, trying to preserve his declinig estate for his daughters instead of his creditors, and brooding aver the baneful effects of slavery. He was unwilling, for financial reasons, to free his own slaves, ...
- 809: Obituary On George Washington
- ... lived at Mount Vernon. George joined the Virginia militia. The British governor of Virginia sent him to the Ohio River on an important mission. Soon Major Washington was fighting in the first battles of the French and Indian War. The next year, he served as an aide to the British General Edward Braddock. In a fearful battle, George Washington escaped injury many times. Four bullets ripped through his coat and two ... of the colonists' concerns, but did nothing. In 1775, Colonel Washington was elected to the Second Continental Congress. By the time it met, battles had been fought at Lexington and Concord in Massachusetts. The American Revolution had started and a military leader was needed. The Congress named George Washington Commander in Chief of the Continental Army. The Revolutionary War was long and difficult. General Washington did not have enough soldiers, guns, food or equipment. He had learned from the French and Indian War to make the most of his supplies and to keep his men healthy. His men became good soldiers because Washington demanded hard work and discipline. General Washington decided not to attack ...
- 810: Timeline History of Russia 1533-1991
- ... do not leave an impact on the country's well-being. In December of 1825, an uprising from the populace occures when they demand changes to the economic system. With the development of the American, French and Spanish constitutions, the serfs now demanded the abolishment of the monarchy dictatorship, communal ownership of land and many other civil and social reforms. Unfortunately, their rebellion was quickly dismantled by the Czar's military ... the leader of the KGB and the Union. At age 54, Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev emerged to inherit the economically devastated Union and began establishing political reforms that the world had not encountered since the Bolshevik revolution of 1917. With radical ideologies such as Glasnost (Openess) and Perestroika (long-range capitalistic restructing), along with improved foreign trade and diplomatic association with the United States (elimination of most ballistic nuclear missiles), the reformist ... face of his dominion. Gorbachev's economical strategies had transformed the Soviet Union from a desolate oppressed wasteland to a socially liberated jungle. Such radical policies and reforms not only encouraged the development of a revolution, but the global transformation of Europe as we know it. As the hard-line coup was formed in early 1991, Gorbachev managed to hold on to power thanks in part to his liberal nemesis, ...
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