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The official newsletter of the Professional Computer Engineers of the Philippines
which are the top gaming
Recent Trends in Information Technology consoles.
There is a continuing development in Information
Science and Information Technology. Improvements in Improvements in Artificial
hardware and software are introduced almost on a Intelligence and Robotics – Artificial
daily basis. Processing speed has been constantly Intelligence, or the ability
doubling nearly every 18 months. With each New Year of an artifact to imitate
comes new set of information systems. functions of human thought,
has been significantly
The rise of electronic information improving. Artificial
systems – from the early Electronic Data intelligence is currently
Processing (EDP) and being utilized for information
Management Information processing, game-playing, space
System (MIS) used by technology, and robotics. Robotics is
organizations and the ability of a machine to mimic human
businesses, information thought and behavior. In 2003, Honda
systems have risen to the Corporation of Japan introduced its
level where they are not robot named Asimo, which could walk
only utilized by quite easily and climb stairs. It could
companies, but are part and parcel of also answer questions and reply to
the organization itself. Now, businesses queries as if having a conversation with
have evolved into electronic business another human being.
enterprises (e-business), and are using
e-commerce in generating new markets for
their products. Electronic information Higher Education and IT Trends – ever-changing
systems have risen to the point where trends in IT greatly affect the functions and goals of
they provide fast, accurate and almost higher education. The rapid increase in new hardware,
unlimited information to business software and information systems has spawned new
managers that will help them make jobs and work specializations. Higher-education
decisions on almost all facets of their institutions have monitored these changes and have
enterprise: production, quality control, introduced new, specialized courses.
and marketing inventory. The European IT courses are now varied: desktop
Union (EU) has recently announced that publishing, information management,
they will try e-government, where they and robotics are now being offered as
will use electronic information systems part of degree courses.
in creating policies, conducting
elections, and managing governmental -Reuter-
affairs and activities. June 30, 2012
Highly-detailed entertainment systems –
many families now watch and record their
favorite films in Digital Versatile Disk
(DVD) format, which can contain more
data and thus provide better resolution
and quality, especially if used with
flat TVs. Electronic games are becoming
more realistic with new titles for the
PC, Playstation 2, Game Gear, and X Box,
MARK computer studio. He left Apple in 1985 to
ZUCKERBERG science spend time with his family, work
Facebook Founder and departments, on community projects, and teach,
CEO
he researches but he still serves as an advisor to
A social and the corporation.
s one of the technical
youngest self- collaboration on Wozniak was inducted into the
made the Internet. Consumer Electronics Hall of Fame
billionaires in and the National Inventors Hall of
history, Mark Zuckerberg could Berners-Lee’s interest in sharing Fame. One of his current passions
have his choice of the finest things information via Web servers, is applying artificial intelligence to
in life. Instead, he lives very browsers, and Web addresses the area of robotics. He also is a
modestly and walks to Facebook’s developed in 1989 while working at member of the Silicon Valley
Palo Alto headquarters. CERN, the European Organization Aftershocks, a polo team that plays
for Nuclear Research, in Geneva, using Segway electric
Both Microsoft and AOL had Switzerland. He continued to transportation devices.
recruited Zuckerberg during his improve his design of a program
senior year in high school in New that tracked random associations
Hampshire. He declined their job for several years and then became
offers and decided to attend the director of the World Wide
Harvard. In college, he and some Web Consortium (W3C), a forum
friends developed several projects, to develop Web standards, in 1994.
laying the foundation that led to
Facebook’s eventual start. Harvard Recently, Queen Elizabeth
administrators claimed these Web bestowed the Order of Merit – the
sites violated students’ privacy. He, highest civilian honor – upon the
however, had instant success British-born Berners-Lee.
launching Facebook from his dorm
room, and the Web site’s popularity
quickly spread to other Ivy League
and Boston-area colleges and then
worldwide. He left his studies at
Harvard University in 2004 and
moved to California.
Today, Zuckerberg says he spends STEVE WOZNIAK
the majority of his time running the Apple Co-founder
$15 billion company on very little M
sleep. ixing fun with
work comes
naturally for
Steve Wozniak.
As Apple's co-
founder, he says his
computer designing career began
and still continues to be a hobby
filled with creativity, humor,
games, and education. In his
TIM BERNERS-LEE opinion, Apple’s success evolved
Creator of the World Wide Web
because he designed computers that
B had minimal parts and maximum
eing the creator of the World Wide performance.
Web is an impressive item on any
resume, and it certainly helped Tim Wozniak designed the original
Berners-Lee become the 3Com Apple computer in 1975 with
Founders Professor of Engineering Apple’s current CEO, Steve Jobs,
at the Massachusetts Institute of and wrote most of the software.
Technology in 2008. As a professor Ten years later he cofounded Pixar,
in the electrical engineering and the award winning animation
