CS 107 Fall Semester 2004 Section 51 Lecture Week 1 The Paragigm Shift to an Information Society

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Paradigm - Paradigm Shift Hunter & Gatherer Society Agrian Society Industrial Society Information Society Brief History of Computers Charles Babbage Herman Hollerith Howard Aiken - Mark I John Mauchly, J. Presper Eckert - Eniac UNIVAC Vacuum Tubes - Transistors - Silicon Chip Gordon Moore - Moore's Law Micro Computer - Apple II - Macintosh Internet - World Wide Web Computers Today Mainframe-Supercomputers Servers - Workstations - PC's Portable Computers Embedded - Special Purpose Computers Networks - Information Sharing LAN - Local area Netork WAN - Wide area Network Modem ARPANET to the Internet How does the Paradigm Shift effect us Work Shift from Blue-collar to white-collar Automated Factory Paperless Office Telecommuting and the Electronic Cottage Electronic Sweatshops Deskilling Upskilling Outsourcing School CAI - Computer Aided Instruction Programming for Kids - LOGO Multimedia Word Processing Home E-mail Web Browsing Home Offoce Small Office Online Dating

Covers: Computer Confluence - Chapters 1 & 11

Links for Further Study

Charkes Babbage - http://ei.cs.vt.edu/~history/Babbage.html

Herman Hollerith - http://www.history.rochester.edu/steam/hollerith/

Emulators of Historical Systems - http://ei.cs.vt.edu/~history/emulators.html

The Eniac Story - http://ftp.arl.mil/~mike/comphist/eniac-story.html

The Univac - http://wwwcsif.cs.ucdavis.edu/~csclub/museum/items/univac.html

Univac Memories - http://www.fourmilab.ch/documents/univac/

Computer History - Great Time Line - http://www.computerhistory.org/

History of the ARPANET - http://www.dei.isep.ipp.pt/docs/arpa.html

History of the Internet - http://www.isoc.org/internet/history/

Internet Pioneers - http://www.ibiblio.org/pioneers/

PONG Video Game - http://www.designboom.com/eng/education/pong.html

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