Throughout history, people have developed various tests to measure the intelligence of machines. ... Some tests have been developed in order to judge the intelligence that machines have. ... According to the article, "Artificial Intelligence" written by Vincent Kiernan, the famous test to check machine's intelligence was developed by the British Computer Scientist, Alan Turing and is given the name of Turing test. According to the Turing test, a human being tries to talk with an unseen conversant. ... Searle did a thought experiment to test Turing's test in Chinese and fo...

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Some hospitals are testing and replacing their own equipment for Y2K compliance to alleviate the financial strain of using an outside source. ... Also, Jim Wagner, Chief Information Officer of the University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics, stated that the position of its hospitals is to test all pieces of equipment that could possibly be life threatening. ...

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Non-Technical Bob Taylor, who was a young man worked at the Pentagon from 1965 till 1969 as the director of the Information Processing Techniques Office (IPTO). He had his office one floor lower than his boss" office Charles Herzfeld, who was the head of the Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA)...

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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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Components of a PC Case: Cases are usually broken up into two different forms (ATX and AT). You must make sure that the case and motherboard are the same form. ATX allows for the motherboard to be installed at a 90 degree rotation. The case has the primary functions of housing, ventilating, powering, and blocking the transmissions of EMF's. Most cases come with screws, case feet, power cord, and expansion inserts. ...

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Later in his works he published a book but the idea never has been tested and pretty much thrown out the window, because it was so far and beyond. In the nearly 50 years after his death, as the name of Turing has been invoked repeatedly by artificial intelligence researchers, as he became a sort of patron saint of computing genius, his theory was never fully tested. ...

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EXECUTIVE SUMMARY This report analyses the major safety issues and factors concerned with the ever-growing industry, Digital Business' (formally known as electronic commerce). It also attempts to answer the question: "How Safe is Digital Business?-. A review of literature published over the past...

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Computing machines can be dated back to the advent of the abacus, a wooden rack holding two horizontal wires with beads strung across them. Several different types of arithmetic operations could be performed when these beads were manipulated. Another early calculator, later called Napier's Bones, made its debut in the early 1600's. This device, invented by Charles Napier, consisted of a series of rods that could be used to perform multiplication. The first digital calculation machine was built by Blaise Pascal in 1642. ...

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Introduction We all know that computers are the most useful and convenient tool in this age. The computer, together with the "all-powerful" Internet provides us with almost everything we could ever want; material things, information, even potential life partners (online dating); thus resulting in ...

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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 nearly 85 percent of the software industry's piracy losses occurred outside of the United States borders. The Software Publishers Association indicated that approximately 35 percent of the business software in the United States was obtained illegally, which 30 percent of the piracy occurs in corporate sett...

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Software Crimes: The Ethical and Economical Downfalls In 1996, worldwide illegal copying of domestic and international software cost $15.2 billion to the software industry, with losses of $5.1 billion in North America alone. Some sources put the total up-to-date losses due to software crime as high as $4.7 trillion. Estimates show that over forty percent of North American software company's revenues are generated overseas, yet nearly eighty percent of the software industry's piracy losses occurred outside of North America. The Software Publishers Association (SPA) indicated t...

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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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