In the #1 New York Times Bestseller \"The Road Ahead,\" Bill Gates reveals to us his personal lamentations on the entire technology landscape. The entirety of the book is progressed in a barrage of in-depth examinations of technological advancements with some rare glimpse of Gate\'s personal life. ...

THE COMPUTER HARDWARE INDUSTRY Executive Summary: The computer industry is capital intensive and technologically driven and can be divided into three main segments; the supercomputer, mainframe, and personal computer. There have been several factors that have impacted the computer indust...

The Digital Divide and Cultural Significance by Dennis L. Wignall, Ph.D. U.S. Government officials and social researchers have long been studying the phenomenon labeledThe Digital Divide? (DD). The DD is defined as the distance between those people who possess functional computing skills in supp...

Dell began as the vision of Michael Dell. The company began in 1984 with a simple business concept to build computers to order and to sell directly to customers (Thompson and Gamble C-132). Dell has a history of achieving double-digit increases in annual sales. To maintain this growth, Dell is f...

The Internet Culture: Is Everyone Virtually Equal? The Internet has crossed numerous boundaries since it's conception. It has brought together the largest community ever in a matter of seconds. The Internet is an electronic meeting place where individuals throughout the world can interact ...

Piracy In 1993 worldwide illegal copying of domestic and international software cost $12.5 billion to the software industry, with a loss of $2.2 billion in the United States alone. Estimates show that over 40 percent of U.S. software company revenues are generated overseas, yet n...

Technology On The Rise We live in a world of industrialization. Things are changing by the second and humanity is learning to adapt and keep up with the times. There have been so many remarkable advances that have made society stronger and more knowledgeable. There have also been advances that...

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...

What comes to mind when you hear the word \'hacker\'? For most it means stealing information through the Internet, gaining illegal access to another person\'s PC, or simply - disruptive behavior using a computer. The subject of hacking is no secret to the general public. Many people have been expos...

During the last decade, a growing number of research projects both in academia and industry embarked on the development of life-like agents as a new metaphor for highly personalized human-machine communication. Due to advances in computer graphics, the realization of visually appealing agents, eithe...