Leadership and team player - This quality applies to software developers who are operating in a team environment as well as those who are independent consultants. For those who are operating in a team environment, you must know how to be a team player and a leader. In the team development environment, the work is usually divided and each team member is wholly responsible for his or her portion. However, that portion does not exist in a vacuum by itself; it relates inextricably to the other parts of the whole and you must have the leadership ability to understand how your portion relates to ...

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In 1997, the Malaysian Administrative Modernisation and Management Planning Unit introduced the Malaysian Computer Emergency Response Team (MyCert) to assist public and private organisations as a point of reference of expertise on network and security matters. While Malaysia has made a good start in regulating the IT environment, the legal and regulatory framework must be constantly reviewed and tightened up, to cater for new technology, including the efficiency of the police, prosecution and judiciary. ...

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President Eisenhower remarkably loved scientists; he had many of them in his team, including James R. ... In 1952, The Lincoln laboratory had a project at MIT leaded to another project called the Semi-Automatic Ground Environment (SAGE). ... After the team was made, the problem was which hardware to use for the proposal. ... After many meetings and decisions, the BBN team submitted its proposal to the ARPA on September 6th, 1968. ... As soon as IMP number five was installed at BBN, the team stepped up its testing program to measure network performance and its limitations. ...

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Pervasive computing environments involve the coordination and interaction among various computing devices which may be accessible or invisible. ... To speak technically this environment is of integrating intelligence and software embedded to portable/smart devices which are our day to day parts of our lives. ... Each device helps in serving to the other devices in these environments either with the help of Bluetooth or wireless. ... In order to implement standard TCP/IP protocol Bluetooth environment can be used. ... Bluetooth having Piconets are first created and then with the help TC/IP c...

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The Career of a Computer Engineer Choosing a career is very important in a person's life. It can also be the most difficult decision a person will have to make. They need to think about the things that interest them and what kind of lifestyle they want to live. When choosing a career a pers...

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The Compaq and Digital team promises the whole enchilada, a complete range product and services for consumers and in addition turning up the heat in the computer market. ... HP is teaming with Microsoft and Intel in producing new products for example; HP and Intel are working on a next generation chip to run other operating systems besides MS Windows. ... The computer industry has several very large and well-respected companies, which are creating a very competitive environment for Dell, not mentioning all the smaller companies fueling competition. ...

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"Software engineers can be involved in the design and development of many types of software, including computer games, word processing and business applications, operating systems and network distribution, and compilers, which convert programs to machine language for execution on a computer. " (Science) This career has a good work environment which is in offices or working at your pace at home depending which software you are going to research. ... The advantages of being a computer software engineer are that some developers work alone, and some others work with dynamic teams. ...

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The computer system must also be placed in a control environment to protect it from environmental hazards e.g. dust and humidity. ... These managerial controls force the development team to do a thorough job since they are accountable to management.. ...

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provides a unique environment, in which unauthorized activities can occur. ... Transmitting credit card information over an unprotected electronic environment such as the Internet is perceived as a high security risk. ...

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The History of the Internet and World Wide Web Since its introduction to the mainstream in the early 1990's, the Internet has grown at an astronomical pace. A few years ago, it was a relatively small network used mainly by computer engineers, the government, and the educational community. Since then, it has blossomed into a global communications infrastructure which anyone from a housewife in the U.S. to a 7-year old in Africa uses on a regular basis. In parallel with it, media and culture surrounding the Internet has experienced rmous expansion to the state of ubiquity. With thi...

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In order to look at the operating systems, we must first ask the questions "What is a computer?" and then "What is an operating system?" In his book A History of Modern Computing, Paul Ceruzzi states that "computers were invented to "compute": to solve "complex mathematical problems," as the dict...

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The Effects of the Knowledge Gap Among Inner-City Youth What is the knowledge gap hypothesis? The knowledge gap hypothesizes that people with more education and higher incomes will easily acquire more knowledge than those with less education and lower incomes, increasing the gap between the info...

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Introduction Computer technology has created a new revolution in how intellectual property is created, stored, reproduced and disseminated. Understanding intellectual property and how to protect it are some of the new challenges that we face. Of course computers have given rise to a whole new ca...

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Management Information Systems: "What Is That"? During my last year in high school people always asked me what I wanted to do or major in college. I always told them business. I really knew nothing about it. I just thought I would be a good business person working behind a desk in front of a c...

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CHAPTER 1 Introduction The year 2000 computer issue is defined by Zetlin (1998) as "the result of a universal programming standard that records dates as six digits rather than eight, using only two digits for the year. Software that uses two-digit year fields (that is, almost all of it) will understand the year 2000 as "00- if the problem is not corrected in time- (pg. 1). The medical industry as a whole will approach year 2000 with months of new system implementations and developing contingency plans to deal with problems associated with Y2K. Medical manufacturers must pay close atte...

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