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- 691: The Evolution of the Computer
- ... The first computers were made with vacuum tubes, but by the late 1950's computers were being made out of transistors, which were smaller, less expensive, more reliable, and more efficient (Shallis, 40). In 1959, Robert Noyce, a physicist at the Fairchild Semiconductor Corporation, invented the integrated circuit, a tiny chip of silicon that contained an entire electronic circuit. Gone was the bulky, unreliable, but fast machine; now computers began to ... s life easier by doing difficult work for people. The computer truly is one of the most incredible inventions in history. Works Cited Chposky, James. Blue Magic. New York: Facts on File Publishing. 1988. Cringley, Robert X. Accidental Empires. Reading, MA: Addison Wesley Publishing, 1992. Dolotta, T.A. Data Processing: 1940-1985. New York: John Wiley & Sons, 1985. Fluegelman, Andrew. "A New World", MacWorld. San Jose, Ca: MacWorld Publishing, February, 1984 ...
- 692: The Year 2000 Computer Problem
- ... the happiness of existence. Companies that fail to act now will probably crumble under their own weight. "The alternative to addressing the year 2000 will be going out of business" (Moffitt & Sandler 3). Bibliography: Martin, Robert A. Dealing with Dates: Solutions for the Year 2000. [Online] Available October 1997 Widder, Pat. Scramble to catch year 2000 bug is on. [Online] Available November 20, 1997 Moffitt, John & Sandler, Robert J. The year 2000 FAQ. [Online] Available January 14, 1997 de Jager, Peter. Youve got to be kidding! [Online] Available January 10, 1997 Conner, Jim. Businesses should get a jump on solving Year 2000 ...
- 693: Willem De Kooning
- ... the exhibit curator Gary Garrells of taking an unusual step of collecting a panel of experts to determine when De Kooning's work began to lose coherence. The panel included painter Joseph Johns and curator Robert Storr of New York's Museum of Modern Art. After close examination of his paintings the expert group determined that De Kooning's work faltered after 1988. Gary Garrells declared the paintings made before 1988 ... colors were concentrated with complements of green, orange and violet with subtly toned creamy backgrounds. These paintings reminded of his 1930s and1940s work with an assurance e and freedom only attained by a master painter. Robert Storr, curator from New York's Museum of Modern Art was one of the coordinator of his last exhibition. He wrote in Winter/Spring 1997 issue of MOMA Magazine that the story of De Kooning ...
- 694: Candidate Profile Paper on Alan Keyes
- ... he went to school, he said In a number of places. Since I was an army brat I went to different schools when I was growing up. I went to high school in San Antonio, Robert G. Cole High School, which was on the base. Actually spent all four years there. And then did the first part of my undergraduate work at Cornell, finished up at Harvard, and then did my ... and tied or ahead of both Gary Bauer and Steve Forbes. He is the most educated Republican candidate and has won the majority of the debates, according to the Internet polls. Co-Host of Crossfire, Robert Novak said that he thinks, It just offends the liberal media to have a black man taking those positions. They say that is not playing the game (2). However Co-Host, Bill Press, said, I ...
- 695: Charles Darwin (1809-1882)
- ... pottery industrialist Josiah Wedgwood's daughter. Despite his mother's Unitarianism and father's free thought, Darwin received an Anglican education. Medical training at Edinburgh University proved unsuccessful, but he loved beach combing with Dr Robert E. Grant, a sponge expert, Lamarckian evolutionist, a democrat and materialist, who trained Darwin in French-style invertebrate anatomy. At student clubs, where Darwin reported his observations, he saw fiery radicals censored for calling the ... H.M.S. BEAGLE AND PERSONAL LIFE From 1831 to 1836, Darwin served as naturalist aboard the H.M.S. Beagle on a British science expedition around the world. The aristocratic Captain of the Beagle, Robert Fitzroy, fearing the loneliness of command, had requested a young gentleman companion - and that's how a self-financed Darwin cruised the world as an imperial-evangelical mission. Fitzroy meticulously surveyed the South American coast ...
- 696: Great Depression
- ... 1930, and up to thirteen million in 193219. The country spiraled quickly into catastrophe. The Great Depression had begun. Bibliography Works Cited Hicks, John D. Republican Ascendancy, 1929-1933. New York: Harper & Row, 1960. Himmelberg, Robert F. The Great Depression and American Capitalism. Boston: D.C. Heath and Co., 1968. McElvaine, Robert S. The Great Depression. New York Times Books, 1984. Meltzer, Milton. Brother, Can you Spare a Dime?. New York: Knopf, 1969. Rublowsky, John. After the Crash. London: Crowell-Collier, 1970. Unstead, R.J. The Twenties ...
- 697: Volcanos
- ... can form new islands or gigantic mountains. The materials that volcanoes erupt can help scientists understand about the inner Earth. Bibliography Bullard, Fred M. Volcanoes of the Earth. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1962. Decker, Robert and Barbara. Volcanoes. San Francisco: W.H. Freeman and company, 1981. Decker, Robert and Barbara. Volcanoes. New York: W.H. Freeman and company, 1981. Macdonald, Gordon A. Volcanoes. New Jersey: Prentice-Hall, inc., 1972. "Volcano", The World Book Encyclopedia, 1993, Volume 20, pages 438-440.
- 698: Wilson, Woodrow
- ... Wilson and the People (1945); Blum, John M., Woodrow Wilson and the Politics of Morality (1956); Bragdon, Henry W., Woodrow Wilson: The Academic Years (1967); Cooper, John M., The Warrior and the Priest (1983); Ferrell, Robert H., Woodrow Wilson and World War I: Nineteen Seventeen to Nineteen Twenty-one (1986); Heckscher, August, Woodrow Wilson (1991); Latham, Earl, ed., The Philosophy and Policies of Woodrow Wilson (1975); Levin, N. Gordon, Woodrow Wilson ... ed. by Arthur S. Link, et al. Died: Feb. 3, 1924, Washington, D.C. Buried: National Cathedral, Washington, D.C. Vice-President: Thomas R. Marshall Cabinet Members:^ Secretary of State: William J. Bryan (1913-15); Robert Lansing (1915-20); Bainbridge Colby (1920-21) Secretary of the Treasury: William G. McAdoo (1913-18); Carter Glass (1918-20); David F. Houston (1920-21) Secretary of War: Lindley M. Garrison (1913-16); Newton D ...
- 699: JFK Assasination
- ... insurance premiums, died, leaving a heavy financial burden on the rest of the family. His mother, Marguerite, was forced to enter the work force. She came to the conclusion to put Lee Harvey, his brother Robert and their half brother, John Pic in orphanage homes. Marguerite later removed Lee Harvey from the home and the two relocated to Dallas when he was around 4 years old. She also withdrew Robert and John in anticipation of her upcoming marriage to Edwin Ekdahl, which took place in May 1945. Lee Harvey became very attached to his stepfather but, in the summer of 1948, her mother divorced Ekdahl ...
- 700: Telecommunications
- ... Internet. Development The Internet technology was developed principally by American computer scientist Vinton Cerf in 1973 as part of a United States Department of Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) project managed by American engineer Robert Kahn. In 1984 the development of the technology and the running of the network were turned over to the private sector and to government research and scientific agencies for further development. Since its inception, the ... Internet :-) CZ, Praha, Grada Demel, Jiri 1995 Internet pro zacatecniky, Praha, NEKLAN Falk, Bennett 1994 InternetROADMAP, translated by David Krαsenskύ, Praha, Computer Press Jenkins, Simon 1995 "The Triumph Of English" The Times, May 1995 Philipson, Robert 1992 Linguistic imperialism, Oxford, Oxford University Press Schmidt, Jan 1996 "Carka , hacek a WWW" Computer Echo Vol. 3/6 (also available on http://omicron.felk.cvut.cz/~comecho/ce/journal.html) Sterling, Bruce 1993 "A ...
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