Engineering can be defined as "the putting together of things."(Internet source, "What is engineering?") This definition has summarized a profession that dates back to ancient times. Many things have been accomplished by early engineers. The great pyramids in Egypt for example ar...

"The best way to appreciete the metris and consequences of being digital is to reflect on the diffrence between bits and atoms" (p:11)says Negroponte. A bit is the smallest part of the information and composed of 0 and 1. To digitize any information it needs to be writen in 1 and 0. ...

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 labeled ?The Digital Divide? (DD). The DD is defined as the distance between those people who possess functional computing skills in suppor...

IntroductionFor 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, and...

Macintosh vs. IBMThe IBM and Macintosh computers have been in competition with each other foryears, and each of them have their strong points. They both had their own ideasabout where they should go in the personal computer market. They also had manydevelopments, which propelled themselves over th...

TABLE OF CONTENTSMICROSOFT HISTORY 1EARLY INFLUENCES 2FIRST BUSINESS VENTURE 3EDUCATION ATTEMPT 3THE MOTIVATIONAL SIDE OF FEAR 4A JAPANESE CONNECTION 5IBM INFLUENCE 5SURVIVAL OF THE FITTEST 6A CRUCIAL DEAL 6COMPETITION ERRORS 7BIRTH OF WINDOWS 7MISSION STATEMENT AND ANALYSIS 8INDUSTRY AND COMPETITVE...