... spacecraft was complete with the scientific instruments, optical components, and remaining hardware intact and prepared for launch. Although scheduled for launch in 1986, the project was later postponed due to the space shuttle Challenger disaster. During this period, HST was subjected to intense tests and observation in order to prepare its duty in space. The HST was finally launched aboard the STS-31 mission of the space shuttle Discovery on April 24, 1990. Shortly after its launch in 1990, an error was found in the HST main mirror, which caused the telescope to operate improperly. The main mirror was shaped too flat toward the edge of the lens itself. This c ...

... economic and social changes (Jones 1996, p.21). In order to provide a clear analysis of the impact of technology on employment, we need to take into account the consequences of technological transitions and seek to relate these to social, economic, political, and cultural factors occurring at the time. The relationship between technology and employment is at the same time complex and volatile (Mokyr 1990, p.52). To illustrate, the term “Luddite” was coined in the early 19th Century to describe mindless machine-breaking (Jones 1996, p.21). The Luddites were skilled cloth-weavers who believed that technology would destroy their livelihood and opportunities for work ...

... windows to get to the one you need. When you first start an application, a corresponding button appears on the task bar. If after opening other windows you need to return to the original window, all you need do is click on the application's button on the task bar and the appropriate window will come to the fore. According to Aley, "the most gratifying, and overdue, improvement is Windows 95's tolerance for file names in plain English" (29-30). Traditionally, users had to think of file names that summed up their work in eight letters or less. This was a constant problem because frequently a user would look at a list of files to retrieve and think "now what did ...

... was constructed of wood, two wires, and beads. It was a wooden rack with the two wires strung across it horizontally and the beads were strung across the wires. This was used for normal arithmetic uses. These type of computers are considered analog computers. Another analog computer was the circular slide rule. This was invented in 1621 by William Oughtred who was an English mathematician. This slid ruler was a mechanical device made of two rules, one sliding inside the other, and marked with many number scales. This slide ruler could do such calculations as division, multiplication, roots, and logarithms. Soon after came some more advanced computers. In 1642 ca ...

... communication is sent only the person it is intended for will read it? How does a company make sure private information does not make the evening news? 2. Are certain types of information more readily amenable to digital processing in a paperless office than others? If so, why; if not, why not? It would seem that some types of information are better in paperless form, while some are not. Implementing an e-mail system can do wonders for companies. The e-mail sessions allow managers to get more information across to the employees and vice versa. This is a way to make sure everyone will access to the same information. A paperless office is a good way to s ...

... water, electric, and telecommunications utilities will leave parts of the industry falling short of Y2K compliance. In the water, electric, and telecommunications utilities lays a far deeper, more involved problem than that of the other utilities. Each of these utilities have a high dependency on devices that have a high probability for not being Y2K compliant. These devices very nearlyd waste) are very much affected by Y2K. Problemed areas are found throughout the water infrastructure. Most obviously water utilities' computer systems will be affected by Y2K unless compliance is fulfilled. If the computers fail, the main areas affected would include custom ...

... Character Recognition 8 Conclusion 9 Recommendations 10 Bibiography 11 INTRODUCTION Purpose The purpose of this study is to determine additional areas where artificial intelligence technology may be applied for positive identifications of individuals during financial transactions, such as automated banking transactions, telephone transactions , and home banking activities. This study focuses on academic research in neural network technology . This study was funded by the Banking Commission in its effort to deter fraud. Overview Recently, the thrust of studies into practical applications for artificial intelligence have focused on exp ...

... floundering company into an industrial giant. soon became the country's largest manufacturer of time clocks and developed and marketed the first electric typewriter. In 1951 the company entered the computer field. The development of 's technology was largely funded by contracts with the U.S. government's Atomic Energy Commission; close parallels existed between products made for government use and those introduced by into the public marketplace. In the late 1950s distinguished itself with two innovations: the concept of a family of computers (its 360 family) in which the same software could be run across the entire family and a corporate policy dictating that n ...

... was to find out who started this problem and tell Herbio so he could fix it using his computer skills. On the other side of the world lived the cause of the problem, Morpheus. Morpheus could change into different people but for only two hours. Morpheus knew Herbio and they had been enemies for a very long time. Morpheus also knew that Herbio would try to solve this problem, but she wasn't aware that Herbio had Mother Nature as a secret weapon. Herbio and Mother Nature went to look for Morpheus once they found out she was the one who created the problem. As soon as they caught up with her, using Mother Nature's mind skills, they tried to defeat her. Herbio had ...

... top of the modem sits the telephone, and that, too, ties me in to an information network. There are more than 500 million phones in the world, and if I knew the number and were willing to pay the bill, I could reach any of them. And as I do my work, I almost always have the radio on, picking a station from dozens of possibilities of broadcast entertainment and news. There is an astonishing electronic information infrastructure surrounding me - surrounding us all. But the electronic part of the information infrastructure is only a tiny fraction of what's available to me. Every morning the newspaper is thrown into the driveway. The paper is an amazing achiev ...