COMM 1101 Lecture : COMM Oct 8.docx

• School: Carleton University
• Department: Communication Studies
• Course: COMM 1101
• Professor: Chris Russill

Document Summary

What is a computer: move from personal computers to the internet, the network is the computer interconnection, technical progress changing the computer to smaller handheld devises. Shifts to mobile social (facebook: original computers were people calculate complex problems. Women plugging things into phone board: hack in to try and steal the system. 5 elements: automated control (software, storage or memory, calculation, communication. Why computing is a key component of your life: digitization ability to change into binary code, solid state of electronics the fact that they invent integrated chips. Fundamental recreation of how people live their lives. When you look to personal computing converted the comp from industrial into social: conversions, human machines interphase. We have powers now that we didn"t have years ago. Better world use free things (email, storage) A bunch of different companies - business machines. One can"t rely on humans to watch for enemies needs to be automated. The us gov. invested 22483$ collaboration with ibm.