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...

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...

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...