Intel Web Site Computer Articles Interact W/ History Design a Robot Explore a Computer Museum Play a Network Puzzle

Computer Sci.6th Assignments7th Assignments8th AssignmentsSyllabus & AKSComp. ArticlesKeyboardingStudent Pub. Proj.Web ResourcesGradesCrews PagesGen. ComputerCompSci Home Research  Report: Begin with the Topics below and write a 1 page report of "How have computers changed over time and where are they headed in the future."  If you do this assignment from home, save the report as a text (.txt) file on a floppy.  Your report should also include a summary and conclusion of what you have learned. Other requirements are under the button Click Here. Present: How Computers Work written by Roderick Hames The Internet written by Roderick Hames The Journey Inside a Computer And... more on INTEL's computer chips for today's computers Past: Generations of Computers written by Roderick Hames History of Computers written by Roderick Hames Time Warp http://www.time-warp.org/ Computer Chronicles: From Stone to Silicon - Thinkquest Site Triumph of the Nerds Computer Museum History Center Future: See below

• CNN...Links to new technology Wireless gadgets
  
• Segway.... So what is all the fuss about? 
  Take a closer look at the new way people are getting around.  It's a scooter, no its a Segway!
   
• New software lets your eyes do the typing.
  Optical movement guides hands-free writing program.
   
• Futuristic Plane Skips Across Atmosphere 
  Anywhere in two hours!   The Hypersoar would travel 10 times the speed of sound - 7,000 mph!

• Other cool Airplane - The SKY Car.
  Another great idea!
  
• Science of the Very Small

Nanotech VisionariesPromise Wonders
By Chris Stamper ABCNEWS.com Imagine surgical tools that can fight disease at a molecular level. Imagine computers smaller than a human cell and microscopic, superefficient manufacturing tools that cut pollution.

• Turning Technology Into Toys

Computer Chips Are Changing the Way We Play By Jack Smith ABCNEWS.com Dec. 22 — A revolution is under way as toy makers increasingly link their products to the home computer.
 
• The Rodent Revolution

30-Year-Old Mouse Ready For Change ABCNEWS.com Dec. 9 — It may look like a rodent, but most of us wouldn’t know what to do without our computer mouse.
 
• A Revolutionary Toxic Waste Cleanup Technology Steaming Out Pollution

In its first nine months, the new cleanup technology removed an amount of contaminant that would have taken 1,000 years using traditional methods.  By Jack Smith ABCNEWS.com Cleaning up toxic waste costs taxpayers millions every year and, at some Superfund sites, will take 100 years—or even more. But now there’s a breakthrough technology—called “dynamic underground stripping”—invented by the Lawrence Livermore National Labs and UC Berkeley with funding from the U.S. Department of Energy.
 
• Internet Bargain-Finder Promises Unbeatable Prices

Revolution in Retail Today, bargain-shopping is a refined hunting skill. The playing field: discount stores, catalogs and sales racks. The weapons: determination, guile and a lot of time. On the horizon, however, is a revolution in shopping—brought about by the Internet.

• Gizmos Galore in Future Home

But Will Consumers Swallow Even More Buttons?  L O S   A N G E L E S,   Jan. 6 — In the digital home of the future, you’ll be able to use the television to order pizza and set the thermostat, record movies without a tape, make popcorn and even buy new shoes. What’s more, the toilet will talk.

• A World Run on Windup

New Generator Technology Brings Power With a Twist By Richard Gizbert ABCNEWS.com This is a story about power. The power of an idea. Award-winning British inventor Trevor Baylis took the concept behind the common windup clock and applied it to radio technology, inventing the “clockwork radio.”

• What's NEWS in Information

Technology! If you want to find out the latest information about products, companies or product strategies, then this is the section to read.  Current News and Events

The Status of Microchip Implant Technology

Dr. Daniel Man, a plastic surgeon who has a medical practice in Boca Raton Florida holds a U S Patent on a microchip implant the technology behind today's microchip is 'fairly uncomplicated" and with a little refinement could be used in a variety of human applications."

• Microchip Implants May Help Cure Blindness Creating a Bionic Eye

When most people think of microchips, they think of computers. But scientists are experimenting with putting silicon chips into the human eye in place of damaged tissue.
 
• It’s the Age of the Microchip


Computers Are Expanding as They Shrink
by. Jack Smith ABCNEWS.com At the beginning of this century, the Wright Brothers made history by flying for 120 feet at 30 mph.

**An archival of Cutting Edge Articles published by ABC-News

        History of Computing
This year marks the fifty-fifth anniversary of ENIAC: the world's first electronic, large scale, general-purpose computer, activated at the University of Pennsylvania on February 14,
1946.  Since then, computers have gotten smaller, more powerful and nearly ubiquitous.  But as the following sites all point out, computing didn't begin a mere half-century ago, but rather thousands of years ago.  Follow me to learn more.

Computer Chronicles: From Stone to Silicon
http://library.thinkquest.org/22522/
***
"Welcome to Computer Chronicles: From Stone to Silicon. The voyage starts in about 3000 BC, with the invention of the abacus in ancient China. It proceeds through the development
of vacuum tubes, transistors, integrated circuits, microprocessors and countless other inventions until the computer of today." Created by a team of three high school students for 1998 ThinkQuest competition, the site divides computer history  into five annotated timelines.

Computer History
http://humlink.humanities.mcmaster.ca/~dalberto/comweb.htm
*****
"Unlike the multipurpose and multi-functional machines known today, the earliest computers were limited to understanding numbers. In fact, mathematicians can be seen as the fathers of
the computer world.  In 1642, the French mathematician and philosopher Blaise Pascal invented a calculating device that would come to be called the "Adding Machine".  As the 18 year
old son of a tax collector, Blaise Pascal  wanted to create a device that would assist his father in his work." In addition to the timeline, you'll find a computer history quiz, and a glossary of computer pioneers and their inventions.
 

Computer Museum History Center
http://www.computerhistory.org/
*****
"This Internet Timeline begins in 1962, before the word ?Internet' is invented. The world's 10,000 computers are primitive, although they cost hundreds of thousands of dollars. They have only a few thousand words of magnetic core memory, and programming them is far from easy." The Computer Museum History Center (of Mountain View, California) is my pick of the day!  Best clicks are the forty-five year timeline of computer history and the online exhibits devoted to History of the Internet and Evolution of the Microprocessor.

Time Warp
http://www.time-warp.org/
****
With an interface that feels like you've walked into a cartoon, Time Warp has taken on the task of archiving vintage technology of the twentieth century.  Dial a decade on the Time Warp control
panel, and you're transported back in time.  Roll your mouse around the living room, and as you pass over clocks, radios, stereos, televisions and home computers, additional choices will appear.  Make your selections in these pop-up menus to see the (sometimes oddball) artifacts that have been collected.

Triumph of the Nerds
http://www.pbs.org/nerds/
****
"Nerds are not a recent phenomenon. It took many years and many nerds to get where we are today."  Based on the PBS television special,  Triumph of the Nerds explores the lives of the young men that created the personal computer revolution and "accidently changed the world."  There's a timeline that traverses from abacus to Internet, stats and facts about five favorite nerds, and a fun
"Can you Guess the Computer?" Shockwave game that lets you test your nerd quotient.

Interact With History:  An Intel Success Story
Your Mission: To help invent a revolutionary technology so small it can hardly be seen and so powerful  it will give rise to speedier calculators, smartphones, personal computers, digital video, the World Wide Web, and new inventions that have yet to be created.  Click Here

Design Your Own Robot

Explore a Computer Museum

Play the Network Puzzle

Answer Geek Archives
                 Answers to Your Most Puzzling Questions

How does the computer really work?  Learning more about Binary Numbers

1. Self-Healing Plastic
2. Edible Cameras