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The Week of November 15
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- Homework:
Search the internet for information on the following:
- Find the name of some encryption software.
- Find some software or a service that will make your
surfing the internet more anonymous.
- Name a way in which the Y2K problem might affect you
directly.
- What is identity theft?
- What is ergonomics?
- What is spam?
- What is a trojan horse?
In a Word file, provide a brief answer to the above
questions and provide the URL of a relevant site or sites.
Due: Nov 22
- Reading:
Discovering Computers 2000 (G. B. Shelly,
T. J. Cashman, M. E. Vermaat and T. J. Walker),
pp. 1.48-1.57. The material on the ENIAC is not in the
book, you can find some information at:
http://ftp.arl.mil/~mike/comphist/
http://www.library.upenn.edu/special/gallery/mauchly/jwmintro.html
- Monday:
Lecture The ENIAC.
(See the slide show on the web
or download the PowerPoint file.)
- Wednesday:
Integration Feature in Microsoft Word 97
(G. B. Shelly, T. J. Cashman and M. E. Vermaat).
- Friday:
TEST
- PowerPoint skills.
- Concepts from "Input/Output" and "Operating Systems."