Computers

Computers and Display Programs in Education

Communication instructors use two broad categories of display programs in their classrooms. The first category is whiteboard technology. When delivering a lecture, instructors make notes on the whiteboard using a special stylus. The text is digitized, so the whiteboard subsequently becomes the display program. Instructors can email these digitized notes to their students or post

Computers and Humankind

Computers and Evolution At first glance, the average person would be familiar with only the last 30 years of computer history. In fact, the origins of the computer, in the way of simple counting aids, date back at least 2,000 years. The abacus was invented around the 4th century BC, in Babylonia (now Iraq). Another