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- 3371: Can Computers Understand?
- ... s mental states and events are controlled by a program. 8) The program is not a product of the computer. 9) A computer does not produce "thoughts" in its brain. 10) A computer cannot understand. John Searle addresses the point of the ability of Artificial Intelligence (AI) to understand, in Mind Brains, and Programs. His main argument is that because AI's are computers and computers have no thoughts of their ...
- 3372: The Right To Die
- ... Oregon’s Assisted-Suicide Law Threatened by a Technicality.” The New York Times . USA: November 19, 1997. “Euthanasia, Synod of the Great Lakes, Reformed Church in America” at: http://www.euthanasia.com/lakes.html Horgan, John. “The Right to Die.” Scientific American. USA : 1996. Mullens, Anne. Timely Death. USA: Knopf, 1996. Reed, Christopher. “Oregon Tackles Mercy Killing.” Globe and Mail Newspaper. Toronto: November 6, 1997. “Religion and The Right to Die ...
- 3373: Animation
- ... Time, Sept.27,1993, pp. 42-47. 3.Elmer, Philip. "Video Game Boom." Time, Nov.1,1993, pp. 16-20. 4.McCallum, Randy. Cinemation. British Columbia: Motion Works Inc., 1992, pp. 1- -193. 5.Redmond, John R. "Animation." Toolworks Encyclopedia, (1992), CD ROM. 6.Young, Harvill. "3D Imaging Technology." MacWorld, Sept.1,1992, pp. 276-285.
- 3374: Development of the Submarine
- ... gained a head start which developed into a decisive nuclear advantage. This advantage acted as an effective deterrent to any Soviet movement into Western Europe. However, as the Soviet nuclear arsenal expanded (mostly during the Kennedy administration), it became necessary to effect a balance in the area of conventional warfare or to make more inroads in nuclear weapons development. Before this could be accomplished, however, advancements in submarine technology had to ...
- 3375: Wire Pirates
- ... the phone phreaks. When hostilities began in the 1960s, phreaks could manipulate with relative ease the long-distance network in order to make unpaid telephone calls by playing certain tones into the receiver. One phreak, John Draper, was known as "Captain Crunch" for his discovery that a modified cereal-box whistle could make the 2,600-hertz tone required to unlock a trunk line. The next generation of security were the ...
- 3376: Windows NT
- ... Radio', which will support real-time call-in shows and music to be sent over the Internet. As the Internet is expanding into another decade, it will become even more interesting and complex. FOOTNOTES: 1.John Quarterman, The Matrix: Computer Networks and Conferencing Systems Worldwide (Bedford, MA: Digital Press, 1990), 42.
- 3377: The Necessity Of Computer Security
- ... codes and calculations missile trajectories, they were also extremely difficult to handle. Now, it is clear that computers are not only here to stay, but they have a profound effect on society as well. As John McCarthy, Professor of Computer Science at Stanford University, speculated in 1966: "The computer gives signs of becoming the contemporary counterpart of the steam engine that brought on the industrial revolution - one that is still gathering ...
- 3378: Integrated Software Application
- ... know whats on it. However, if you had ever run a BBS before, which I do, you'd know that its hard, if not impossible to know whats on your computer. Planet-X, my friend John Morse's BBS, which I co-run, has 50 calls a day. Of those 50 calls, about 35 of them upload or download software. Neither one of us is constantly monitoring the system, nor is ...
- 3379: Telecommunication
- Telecommunication 1. Introduction Computer and telephone networks inflict a gigantic impact on today's society. From letting you call John in Calgary to letting you make a withdraw at your friendly ATM machine they control the flow of information. But today's complicated and expensive networks did not start out big and complicated but rather ...
- 3380: How Technology Effects Modern America
- ... the masters of us. Bibliography Where have the good jobs gone?, By: Mortimer B. Zuckerman U.S. News & World Report, volume 119, pg. 68 (July 31, 1995) Wealth: Static Wages, Except for the Rich, By: John Rothchild Time Magazine, volume 145, pg. 60 (January 30, 1995) Welfare Reform, By: Lawrence Mishel http://epn.org/epi/epwelf.html (Feb 22, 1994) 20 Hot Job Tracks, By: K.T. Beddingfield, R. M. Bennefield ...
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