RFID technology enables the automated gathering and sending of asset information. RFIDs is being used for dogs and cats to track them so that if they get lost they can be returned to their owners.

Friday, September 21, 2007

Gordon Moore: Co-founder and Chairman Emeritus of Intel Corporation and the author of Moore's Law

Alan Turing: Often considered to be the father of modern computer science. He devised a number of techniques for breaking German ciphers, including the method of the bombe, an electromechanical machine that could find settings for the Enigma machine. Creator of the Turing Test.

Steve Jobs: The co-founder and CEO of Apple and was the CEO of Pixar until its acquisition by Disney. He is currently the largest Disney shareholder^[7] and a member of Disney's Board of Directors. He is considered a leading figure in both the computer and entertainment industries.^[8]

Bill Gates:Is an American entrepreneur, philanthropist and chairman of Microsoft, the software company he founded with Paul Allen. During his career at Microsoft he has held the positions of CEO and chief software architect, and he remains the largest individual shareholder with more than 8% of the common stock

Larry Page: Co-founded the Google internet search engine, now Google Inc., with Sergey Brin. Page is currently the President of Products at Google Inc. and has a net worth estimated at 18.5 billion dollars, making him the 5th richest person in the America together with Sergey Brin according to Forbes' annual list of billionaires on 2007

Tim Berners - Lee: A British developer who with the help of Robert Cailliau invented the World Wide Web. Sir Timothy Berners-Lee is the director of the World Wide Web Consortium (which oversees its continued development), and a senior researcher and holder of the 3Com Founders Chair at the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL).

Jeff Bezos: Is the founder, president, chief executive officer, and chairman of the board of Amazon.com. Bezos, a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Princeton University, worked as a financial analyst for D. E. Shaw & Co. before founding Amazon in 1994. He was TIME magazine's Person of the Year in 1999.

Steve Ballmer: Has been the chief executive officer of Microsoft Corporation since January 2000. Ballmer is the first person to become a billionaire (in U.S. dollars) based on stock options received as an employee of a corporation in which he was neither a founder nor a relative of a founder. In its 2007 World's Richest People ranking, Forbes Magazine ranked Ballmer as the 31st richest person in the world, with an estimated wealth of $15 billion.

Kenn Rose:

The Singularity is Near (Not to be confused with the book)

I think that the whole Singularity thing is cool and could happen. From what I understand, it seems like computers can become smarter than humans and the human race. They could also kill off humans if they think that it is necessary for them to do so if they ever become smart enough.

First Blog of Semester 1

Moore's Law is currently right about the speed of CPU's doubling every 18-24 months. Supposedly it has had a very long life because many of these types of "laws" don't normally last as long as this one.

Computers would be able to pass the Turing Test in the near future. Probably 2020 at the earliest. But computers, I think, will pass the test between the years 2020 and 2030.

I found it interesting how different the Microprocessors of today are so different from some of the first models and makes of them. It seems weird that they were set up so much differently then they are today and used such different parts back then compared to the parts we use today.