IT RELATED TERMS UNIX A high-level programming language developed by Dennis Ritchie at Bell Labs in the mid 1970s. Although originally designed as a systems programming language, C has proved to be a powerful and flexible language that can be used for a variety of applications, from business...

When you think of Bill Gates what comes to mind? A computer genius, the richest man in the world, a nerd. When I think of Bill he reminds me of Albert Einstein or even Thomas Edison because of what he did for mankind. William Henry Gates III was born on October 28, 1951. Gates was the first b...

The Pros and Cons of Object-Oriented Software Engineering 1. Preamble If we trace our steps down the spiraling routes of software history, searching for the origin of the object oriented programming, we will notice that it was back in 1967 that the first object-oriented ideas emerged. The...

Bill Gates, The founder of the Microsoft has a lot of people who like him and I can tell that for sure just by looking at his fortune. There are however people who not only despise him, but dedicate entire web-sites to criticizing him and his company. Some have even gone as far as throwing pies in ...

Living in an age of technology, the world is constantly coming up with new ways to make our lives easier (or sometimes more complex depending on how you look at it). Now with the help of the open source community, programming languages are blossoming from a small idea of a lonely programmer. Perl, a...

On Classrooms, With and Without Computers Clifford Stoll's essay about computers replacing teachers and hands on experiences as a means for education is filled with his passion for experiencing nature with all of the senses we humans were born with. He writes of feeling the gooshiness of an octopu...

'Oak', Knotty By Nature: It is the nature of human nature that problems will arise and it is commonplace for solutions to be created from these problems. With the advent of the 1990's computer enthusiasts and programmers alike began to embrace a new innovation, the internet. As th...

On the nature and development of Operating Systems Introduction I have been asked to do an assignment on the nature and development of Operating Systems. I accessed information on the internet to broaden my understanding and to enable me to complete assignment. I will start by giving an overvie...

BUSINESS INFORMATION SYSTEMS Information System - A set of interrelated components that collect, retrieve, process, store and distribute information for the purpose of facilitating planning, control, coordination, analysis and decision making in organisations. Input - the capture or co...

History of CC++ In 1966, Christopher Strachey assembled a collection of working papers on a language called CPL (Combined Programming Language). It was never actual implemented, but was used basically to study the theory of programming languages. In 1969, Martin Richards took many of the concepts f...

Introduction For thousands of years, maybe since the beginning of time, people search for better ways to improve the quality of life. And for the past hundred of years, computers eventually took stand in the world. Today, computers are generally used as a productive, educational, communication...

In the 21st Century, computers have become an inevitable part of our lives. Over the course of the last few decades, it has greatly changed the way business is done. In the stock exchange, for example, buyers and seller can make trades right on their own personal desktop. Large quantities of stocks ...