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...n Turing as the Father of modern computer thanks to his Turing Test and his views on Artificial Intelligence. Both men played a momentous role in the Digital Revolution and in the Information Age, according to the book. Finally, the author talks about nanotechnology, which explores the world of small, meaning at the atomic and the molecular levels and is an inescapable too...

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...er………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………147 3. Alan Turing, Father of Modern Computer…………………………………………………………………………………………………152 CHAPTER X: The Digital Revolution…………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………174 1. Information Technology…………………………………………………………………………………………………………........................176 A. Data Storage……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………...

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...hanical, including photocopying, recording, taping, or by any information storage retrieval system, without the permission, in writing, from the pub... ...d Zodiac. “ Alexis Hera,” replied Callous. “I ran her through special ops databases as well as any black ops I could fnd and there were no matches. ... ... yet ready. It was time to start searching through the various government databases that they had commandeered. She wanted to know who or what Vin- ... ... of a place like this. I doubt it would be in any ofcial or even unofcial database. If this is where they made you what you are, then there’s no way... ...enderless restroom and what ap- peared to be a back room, probably for the storage of food. Despite the setup, they both noticed a musty, stale smell.... ...ide, then nervously slipped it into his pocket. “Sorry. Anyway, I found a digital cam- era. I could put her through facial recognition…see what it co... ...Wall, many shelters were used as foundations for buildings or became mere storage areas. Government compounds were abandoned, like this one. Many s...

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...xty-four, I bring another full lifetime lived both at that exact moment where my experiences could straddle working in print shops and in the current digital eBook era.. My degree in human-computer interfaces in 1973 led to my appointment as adjunct professor at Benedictine University, where I built the world‘s first electronic library in 1988. You could walk into that ...

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...ssed before Ottmar Mergenthaler found a way in the late 1880s to mechanize that historic invention. Then, less than a century later – in the 1980s – digital printing displaced Mergenthaler’s wondrous Linotypes....

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...cy and self-education lead to a ―Scientific Revolution.‖ 20. Linotype‘s Digital Demise Smoke and the acrid smell of hot lead in the back shop ble... ...newspapers during the hot-metal-type era and in the initial transition to digital phototypesetting. At sixty-four, I bring another full lifetime liv... ...e my experiences could straddle working in print shops and in the current digital eBook era.. My degree in human-computer interfaces in 1973 led to... ...ter systems, software, and networks for the processing and distribution of data.‖ According to M-W, the first known coupling of those two words was... ...ographic systems, the alphabet makes it much easier to store and retrieve data. By organizing entries alphabetically, dictionaries, encyclopedias,... ...e toward the top of the machine until each matrix dropped into its proper storage tube within the Linotype‘s magazine. Notches on the sides of mat... ... key—were coded differently for each character to direct it to its proper storage place in a vertical tube at the top of the machine. Lower costs... ...d lower cases, where they could immediately be used again. Long aisles of storage cases that had been filled with foundry-produced type became obsol... ...y’s Decimal Classifications system made them easy to find by checking data cards in catalog drawers. ...

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...elley, Harrisonburg, Virginia. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Zittrain, Jonathan ( Jonathan L.), 1969– The future of the Internet—... ...is good—but only if the Internet and PC can remain sufficiently central in the digital ecosystem to compete with locked-down appliances and facilitate t... ... that can run on it. Bill Gates sees the Xbox as at the center of the future digital ecosystem, rather than at its periph- ery: “It is a general purpo... ...people are connected, whether and how it is filtered, and how fast it carries data. 2 These are important questions, but they risk obscuring the realit... ...of the 1880 U.S. Census. 1 He was sure he could invent a way to tabulate the data automatically, and over the next sev- eral years he spent his spare ... ...e’s hardware perform that specific task. This embedding process occurs in the digital watch, the calculator, and the firmware within Mr. Coffee that allo... ...the issuance of this order, disable the DVR functionality (i.e., disable all storage to and playback from a hard disk drive of television data) in all... ...007) (containing links to articles and news about DRM and fair use). 66. See Storage T ech. Corp. v. Custom Hardware Eng’g & Consulting, Inc., 421 F .... ...t and privacy in the context of public identification systems and information-storage architectures). 14. C. C. C § 1798.82 (West 2003). Califor...

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...ghts, or the absorption and processing of absolutely irrelevant and inconsequential data. Moreover, these laboriously accumulated databases vanish ... ...ish instantaneously with death. The organism is akin to a computer which processes data using elaborate software and then turns itself off after 15... ...es. Natural learning is limited in its repertory. For all practical purposes, the data processed are invariable, the feedback immutable, and the o... ...over the conscious. Data is stored in three loci: The first one is in the Sensuous Storage Centre. This is a subconscious registry and it keeps in ... ... materialization of a structure) and repetition of the material stored. Long Term Storage readily available to consciousness. We distinguish thre... ...mory: not reconstructible (=no stamping was made), reconstructible from one of the storage areas (=is within a structure post stamping) and memory ... ...s engaged in solving only recursive functions. We can say that TMs can do whatever digital computers are doing but not that digital computers are ...

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...c or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or by any information storage and retrieval system, without permission in writing from the copyr... ...t she’s only an hour into a code yellow." Atlas glanced up at the antique digital clock on the wall, calculating the time left before running a code... ...n’t bring himself to give over his one prize possession. The dainty gold digital watch, he clutched tightly in his hand. Atlas offered to hold onto ... ...ugh simplistic, the complex had fully equipped medical stations, work and storage areas, schools, libraries, recreation posts and much more. All the... ... from a slab concrete wall. Also on the level were Alex's quarters, light storage, the armoury and technical equipment sections. The station was the... ... linked to every major city in the world to gather, organise and dispatch data. The governing body at that time nicknamed the artificial intelligenc... ...anted to take one back for a souvenir. Atlas corrected her, for technical data only. Alex intervened when Roxanne told him to get his frigging own. ... ... of protective coverings and powered up. Lights blinked, monitors hummed, data flickered on several screens and Medtechs came and went with instrume... ...open field. "Ursula," Alex murmured, intently scanning every pixel of the digital image. A clear woman's voice accompanied the visual. "Program name,...

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...st known defense mechanism. People simply ignore unpleasant facts, they filter out data and content that contravene their self-image, prejudices, a... ...ert with a different strategy more suited to the new – unpleasant and threatening – data. So the interpretation of this regression as a failure of ... ...ld not "see" straight lines and kept tumbling over tightly strung cords. Even sense data involve some modicum and modes of conceptualization (see: ... ...lationships with. Guntrip added the regressed Ego, which is the True Self in "cold storage", the "lost heart of the personal self". Fairbairn's def... ...sist's point of view • Bibliography • 600 printed pages in a quality paper book • Digital Bonus Pack! (available only when you purchase the previou...

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...never advance humanity any further. In order to make sense out of scientific data and information: the specialized Fields of Science must be interc... ...s accumulation of specialized unconnected bits of knowledge called scientific data. Separating scientific geometric knowledge from scientific mathe... ...lly because this is how the entire Universe is organized and structured. The digital machine knowledge of 1 and 0 cannot explain a damned thing bec... ...ut-of-context, and drawing mistaken conclusions from interpreting specialized data out-of-context. Which is exactly what Science does. Except to ... ... of the one-sided splitting of tool-use in our technology is the trend towards digitalization. As everything becomes more modular-segmented, we are ... ...opper atoms are absolutely identical to each other. The visual illusions of Digitalization only works when you reduce things down to a size so smal... ...ecame worshiped in Egypt as domesticated cats that killed mice in their grain storage vaults: the vaults of greed and death. The Egyptians brought a...

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...Essays dedicated to the new media, doing business on the web, digital content, its creation and distribution, e-publishing, e-books, digital reference, DRM technology, and other related issues....

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...d by:LIDIJA RANGELOVSKA REPUBLIC OF MACEDONIA Additional articles about Digital Content on the Web: http://samvak.tripod.com/busiweb.html E... ...web.html Essays dedicated to the new media, doing business on the web, digital content, its creation and distribution, e-publishing, e-books, dig... ...Manage IT – Information Technology at a Crossroads The Internet and the Digital Divide I. The Internet – A Medium or a Message? II. The Inte... ...... ... automatically or periodically updated content, ,multimedia capabilities, database, Favourites and History Maintenance (records of reading habits, s... ...mphasizes the growing realization that one's list of customers - properly data mined - is the greatest asset, greater even than original content and... ...e are working to permanently preserve a record of public material." Data storage is the first phase. It is not as simple as it sounds. The prolifera... ...ly, the vast Internet was transformed from a dimly lit warehouse for data storage and exchange, to a visible library and gallery for information. I ... ...obbles up more than 3.5 Gb. That's a lot - even in an age of ever cheaper storage. Most homesteads still sport PCs with 20-40 Gb hard disks. This ma...

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...psycho, socio, economic problems of these HIV/AIDS patients from rural Tamil Nadu (a southernmost state in India) remain indeterminate apart from the data being an unsupervised one. At the outset, we first emphasize that the study and analysis (and there by the conclusions and suggestions) pertain only to migrant labourers from rural Tamil Nadu who are poor and uneducated ...

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...Nadu (a southernmost state in India) remain indeterminate apart from the data being an unsupervised one. At the outset, we first emphasize that the... ...stionnaire without which we would not have been in a position to get this data. We thank our research scholars Mr.Ganesan, Mr.Kanagamuthu and Mr.Na... ...could comprehend the risk-behaviours better and correlate it with the raw data/information/feelings that we derived from the interviews when we look... ...one sense every computer is a neural net, because we can view traditional digital logic as constructed from inter connected McCullouch-Pitts neurons... ... 37. Haines, K., and Hecht Nielsen, R., “A BAM with Increased Information Storage Capacity,” Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Neu...

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... Ave., Phoenix, AZ 85020, USA Many books can be downloaded from the Digital Library of Science: http://www.gallup.unm.edu/~smarandache/eBooks-... ...in his book Heaven in a Chip: Fuzzy Visions of Society and Science in the Digital Age writes that fuzzy theory can offer more choices and blur the h... ...han that of the FCM model in several ways mainly when the analysis of the data can be treated as two disjoint entities. Thus its application to the ... ... interrelated definitions. FCMs have a major role to play mainly when the data concerned is an unsupervised one. Further this method is most simple ... ...her this method is most simple and an effective one as it can analyse the data by directed graphs and connection matrices. DEFINITION 1.1.1: An FC... ...l is complex, fuzzy and an uncertain process. The Internet is a system of storage and retrieval of information characterized by its ILLITERACY RATE... ...starting matrices, S and T. This 62 entails an increased use of memory storage in the computer, but the computation for causal inferences is grea... .... Kosko, B. Heaven in a chip: Fuzzy Visions of Society and Science in the Digital Age, Three Rivers Press, November 2000. 57. Kosko, B. Hidden Patt...

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...is human (father) and the product is human (child) - there is an enormous amount of data that can be derived from the product and safely applied to ... ...ications were authored serially, in machine language and with strict separation of data (called: "structures") and instruction code (called: "funct... .... In the early life of the human embryo, instructions (DNA) are also insulated from data (i.e., from amino acids and other life substances). In ear... ...ion of trade secrets and the criminalization of the violation of copyrights in the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (2000) – both in the USA. These... ...ts early philosophy of communal cross-pollination and exuberant exchange of ideas, digital goods, information, and opinion will dwindle and vanish.... ...second function - leisure activities - fell prey to the advance of the internet and digital and wireless telecommunications. Whereas the hallmark ... ...es. They will haul their world with them as they move about. The miniaturization of storage devices will permit them to carry whole libraries of dat... ...e dynamic of these markets is self-reinforcing. Faster computers with more massive storage, speedier data transfer ("pipeline"), and networking ca... ...he printed page. The latter is still the most ingenious medium yet invented for the storage and release of textual information. Granted: a computer ...

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...is human (father) and the product is human (child) - there is an enormous amount of data that can be derived from the product and safely applied to ... ...ications were authored serially, in machine language and with strict separation of data (called: "structures") and instruction code (called: "funct... .... In the early life of the human embryo, instructions (DNA) are also insulated from data (i.e., from amino acids and other life substances). In ear... ...ion of trade secrets and the criminalization of the violation of copyrights in the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (2000) – both in the USA. These... ...ts early philosophy of communal cross-pollination and exuberant exchange of ideas, digital goods, information, and opinion will dwindle and vanish.... ...second function - leisure activities - fell prey to the advance of the internet and digital and wireless telecommunications. Whereas the hallmark ... ...es. They will haul their world with them as they move about. The miniaturization of storage devices will permit them to carry whole libraries of dat... ...e dynamic of these markets is self-reinforcing. Faster computers with more massive storage, speedier data transfer ("pipeline"), and networking ca... ...he printed page. The latter is still the most ingenious medium yet invented for the storage and release of textual information. Granted: a computer ...

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...eur doused the lights which made the limo nearly invisible and checked the red digital numbers on his watch: 3:10 am. Two men sat silently in the b... ...essed in a black chauffeur's uniform, pushed a button on his watch and read the digital numbers: it was 3:30 am. "It's time," the driver said in a h... ... "Maybe they've had reports of similar occurrences. They've got a huge medical data base we can pull from." "What do we report?" one of the veteran... ...port needs to be organized," Greene said. "More importantly, we need some hard data to report, so that we can compare our data with the CDC's. Righ... ...'re only speculating," Greene said cautiously, taking con­ trol. "We need facts, data, tissue samples. Let's get to it." Greene looked around the roo... ...pointed out that all of the symptom sites were in the vicinity of nuclear waste storage facilities." "You think these dumpsites are the cause of the... ...ide, there isn't enough money in the U.S. Treasury to clean up fourteen nuclear storage sites, let alone one like Hanford." "You said two reasons."... ...ery geographic area that sur- 13:l Johnathan Cross rounds one of their nuclear storage facilities. Check it out with the CDC." "How do you know Ma... ...to bed. A man dressed in a hotel waiter's uniform looked at his watch. The red digital numbers read 1 :00 a.m. The door to the elevator opened and ...

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...cordance with certain basic assumptions? Or should it revolve around the mining of data for emerging patterns, rules, and "laws"? On the one hand,... ...? On the one hand, patterns based on limited - or, worse, non-recurrent - sets of data form a questionable foundation for any kind of "science". O... ...t must cast the familiar in a new light, mine patterns and rules from big bodies of data ("data mining"). Its insights must be the inevitable conclu... ...ormation one can transfer through a single fiber optic swelled 100 times. Computer storage catapulted 80,000 times. Broadband and cable modems let ... ...e dynamic of these markets is self-reinforcing. Faster computers with more massive storage, speedier data transfer ("pipeline"), and networking cap... ...e Internet, the barriers to entry are virtually nil. As processors grow speedier, storage larger, applications multi-featured, broadband access al... ...000 worth of equipment - can publish a Webzine, author software, write music, shoot digital films, design products, or communicate with millions and... ...eit glacially. The Internet is essentially a free marketing and - in the case of digital goods - distribution channel. It directly reaches 200 mi... ...applied in such a fast tempo? There are great problems with official documents and digital formats. Some good analysis of a space with fast changi...

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...kind is about to move into the era of hydrogen power, to a superculture of digital, automation or genetic technology, development moves to the start o... ...s - universal know-how and education Transnational production structures - digital technology, space technology - automation, robotics, biotechnology ... ...sal technosystems - Internet, global networks - universal science - global databases ('World Brain') - global hierarchy Planetary developmental ideolo... ...n all my other research projects, I have endeavoured to obtain comparative data from several localities or over a long period, and also to use statist... ...tric statistical analysis, but the present project contains only frequency data reflecting the relative prevalence of phenomena in different villages ... ... and videos, although in 1999 I recorded 12 hours of video in all, using a digital camera. The corpus of fieldwork material is archived in the collect... ... been built below the concrete bridge, and there are a couple of rainwater storage tanks up on the slope, but they do not resolve the cultivation prob...

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...stomed to research jargon, or may be omitted completely (again, it so was from the digital edition). Ben Enis {1973) pointed out that the marketi... ...ng concepts such as a presence of an idea sector, then testing those concepts with data and finally presenting a real-world application. I wish t... ...tuitive, inductive. The second leg reinforces, orders and synthesizes the original data by connecting them with one another as well as with additiona... ... by connecting them with one another as well as with additional facts to which the data have brought attention. The trip is never back and forth just... ...events Public relations, image creation Place Channels of distribution Storage Quantity breaking Delivery Inventory management ...

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...re generally, Paul Ginsparg in astrophysics, and Harlan Onsrud in geospatial data. Paul Uhlir’s work at the National Academy of Sciences intro- duced ... ...nsiders legislative proposals that would allow the ownership of facts. 5 The Digital Millennium Copyright Act gives content providers a whole array of... ...ium Copyright Act gives content providers a whole array of legally protected digital fences to en- close their work. 6 In some cases it effectively re... ... the idea that there might be constitutional challenges to the regulation of digital speech by copyright law may wallow in those arguments to their he... ...nnium Copy- right Act, to trademark “anti-dilution” rulings, to the European Database Protection Directive. 18 The old limits to intellectual property... ...discoveries, prior research, images, genres of work, cultural references, or databases of single nucleotide polymorphisms—each is raw material for fut... ...d society, copying is not only easy, it is a necessary part of transmission, storage, caching, and, some would claim, even reading. 36 As bioinformati... ...marginal cost of reproduction is zero, the marginal cost of transmission and storage approaches zero, the process of creation is additive, and much of...

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...ng material previously available only to the most elite. Advances in literacy and self-education lead to a ?Scientific Revolution.? -- 20. Linotype‘s Digital Demise-Smoke and the acrid smell of hot lead in the back shop blend with the clickety-clack of a gang of wondrous Linotypes in full cry. Then suddenly, they’re gone. -- 21. The Seeds of Cyberspace-?As long as scientis...

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...and self-education lead to a ―Scientific Revolution.‖ 20. Linotype‘s Digital Demise Smoke and the acrid smell of hot lead in the back shop blen... ...newspapers during the hot-metal-type era and in the initial transition to digital phototypesetting. At sixty-four, I bring another full lifetime liv... ...e my experiences could straddle working in print shops and in the current digital eBook era.. My degree in human-computer interfaces in 1973 led to... ...ter systems, software, and networks for the processing and distribution of data.‖ According to M-W, the first known coupling of those two words wa... ...ographic systems, the alphabet makes it much easier to store and retrieve data. By organizing entries alphabetically, dictionaries, encyclopedia... ...e toward the top of the machine until each matrix dropped into its proper storage tube within the Linotype‘s magazine. Notches on the sides of m... ... key—were coded differently for each character to direct it to its proper storage place in a vertical tube at the top of the machine. Lower costs... ...d lower cases, where they could immediately be used again. Long aisles of storage cases that had been filled with foundry-produced type became obsol... ...y’s Decimal Classifications system made them easy to find by checking data cards in catalog drawers. ...