used social engineering and dumpster diving to bypass the punch card system in the bus system. He broke into DEC’s computer network and copied their software, a crime he was charged with and convicted of in 1988. He was sentenced to 12 months in prison followed by three years of supervised release. Near the end of supervised release, Mitnick hacked into Pacific Bell voice mail computers. He started breaking into companies like IBM, Motorola, and Nokia. He also joined a phone phreak gang, which met
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System A Thesis Presented to The Faculty of Information Technology Department Informatics College, Northgate Campus In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree Bachelor of Science in Information Technology/ Bachelor of Science in Computer Science Justine Paul D. De Villa Joyce L. Galang CHAPTER 1 The Problem: Rationale and Background Introduction Nowadays the number of school population is usually rising because of the rapid increase of students in our country. The Philippines
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Although computers and computer programs are now an everyday thing in our society they were thought of and created way before our time. The inventors of these amazing devices and programs were way ahead of their time (in my opinion) and made significant strides in helping us get to where we as a society are today in relation to the computing science. Two of these people are Charles Babbage and Ada Lovelace. Charles Babbage (1791-1871) was many things, a mathematician, philosopher, inventor and
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Advanced Information Management and the Application of Technology Western Governors University Adam Culbertson A. New Information Management System Implementation of a computer system to replace paper documentation would require the involvement of an interdisciplinary team. This team would be comprised of several members, each with a specific job. The first member selected would be a Clinical Nurse Informaticist. This team member would be charged with giving valuable input on the software
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INDUCTION PROGRAMME FOR NEW STAFF The induction programme lists suggested activities to be covered from day one through to the end of probation. |SESSION |SUGGESTED CONTENT OF SESSION | |Introduction to the University and work area |Mission, Vision, Objectives of work area | |Person Responsible – Line Manager |How
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Background of the study The computer as we know it today had its beginning with a 19th century English mathematics professor name Charles Babbage. He designed the Analytical Engine and it was this design that the basic framework of the computers of today are based on. Generally speaking, computers can be classified into three generations. Each generation lasted for a certain period of time,and each gave us either a new and improved computer or an improvement to the existing computer. First generation:
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enthusiasm over computers, even though they were very different. Allen was more reserved and shy. They both spent much of their free time together working on programs. Occasionally, they disagreed and would clash over who was right or who should run the computer lab. On one occasion , their argument clash until the boiling point where Allen banned Gates from the computer lab. Gates and Allen had their school computer privileges revoked for taking advantage of provided the computers. After their probation
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plays a major role in ICT industry. This paper is an attempt to explore an overview of nanotechnology, the importance of this technology, how nanotechnology has made an impact to the IT and communication industries, its application areas and how the computers and other electronic devices improved their performance. I. INTRODUCTION There are many industrial revolutions
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Research Proposal Modernizing a data warehouse for business advantage Introduction Ten years ago, Data Warehousing was largely unknown. Today most organizations relay on effective warehousing concepts to analyse data in efforts to predict future trends and assist in decision making. In this increasingly competitive business environment Data Warehousing is one of the most important developments in recent Information Systems. There is a large need to acquire data, anywhere at any time, thus there
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E-LEARNING E-LEARNING means learning conducting through electronic media, typically on the internet. In this current situation technology has been developed extent to that we can learn anything from anywhere at any time through e-learning. We can take example that in some companies are facing financial problem, those companies don’t put much money on trainers that is they don’t take more number of trainers, instead of that do e-learning which will be interesting and cost saving and even trainee
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