• The Computer Originated World (COW) was the method of creating the BBC1 symbol that was used between 18 February 1985 and 16 February 1991. It was later...
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  • also used the same clock face as before, with some changes. The Computer Originated World was replaced on 16 February 1991 by a new virtual globe, designed...
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  • 1997 Cow, a character in the animated series Cow and Chicken Computer Originated World, referring to the globe ID the BBC1 TV network used from 1985...
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  • World!" program is usually a simple computer program that emits (or displays) to the screen (often the console) a message similar to "Hello, World!"...
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    mechanical engineer and polymath, originated the concept of a programmable computer. Considered the "father of the computer", he conceptualized and invented...
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    are used as metasyntactic variables and placeholder names in computer programming or computer-related documentation. They have been used to name entities...
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  • device of a rotating world: the Computer Originated World, which had previously been used on BBC One between 1985 and 1991. The world symbol remained the...
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  • solid-state computer device, not unlike the one used later for BBC1's Computer Originated World, built by BBC engineers, and designed by Oliver Elmes. The concept...
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    years. Most notably, on 18 February 1985, the "Computer Originated World" was introduced. This was a computer-animated globe with the land coloured gold and...
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  • Another World was commercially successful, selling about one million copies during the 1990s. The game received critical acclaim. Computer Gaming World criticized...
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    1985, with the first showing of the globe's replacement: the Computer Originated World or COW for short. The globe was retired because of the fact it...
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    A computer network is a collection of communicating computers and other devices, such as printers and smart phones. Today almost all computers are connected...
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    Cybercrime (redirect from Computer crime)
    as "a crime committed on a computer network, especially the Internet"; Cybercriminals may exploit vulnerabilities in computer systems and networks to gain...
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  • year of operation. List of awards for contributions to society The Computer World Smithsonian Awards, 1989–2001, Smithsonian Institution. staff, Computerworld...
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  • relaunch, along with the introduction of a new ident, the COW (Computer Originated World). Also, computerised weather maps were used for the first time...
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  • seen for the final time an hour later. Its replacement, the COW (Computer Originated World), makes its debut at 7pm. The first usage of the COW ident introduces...
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    against these attacks is much more difficult. Such attacks can originate from the zombie computers of a botnet or from a range of other possible techniques...
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    computer graphics began during the vacuum tube era with the IBM 740 CRT Data Recorder and the Whirlwind light pen. Programming languages originated in...
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    counting operations. Colossus is thus regarded as the world's first programmable, electronic, digital computer, although it was programmed by switches and plugs...
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    developed a systems dynamics simulation computer model. These works can be seen as following the path originated with the work of Fritz Machlup who in his...
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    Human–computer interaction (HCI) is the process through which people operate and engage with computer systems. Research in HCI covers the design and the...
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    World War III, also known as the Third World War, is a hypothetical future global conflict subsequent to World War I (1914–1918) and World War II (1939–1945)...
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  • and imagining of what computers could do. ~ Items marked with a tilde are circa dates. Biography portal Lists portal Computer Pioneer Award IEEE John...
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  • refer to Occupy Wall Street, a political protest starting in 2011 that originated in New York City at Zucotti Park OGC Web Service Common, a standard of...
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  • A black hat (black hat hacker or blackhat) is a computer hacker who violates laws or ethical standards for nefarious purposes, such as cybercrime, cyberwarfare...
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  • The Jargon File is a glossary and usage dictionary of slang used by computer programmers. The original Jargon File was a collection of terms from technical...
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  • ethics promoted, among others, by Luciano Floridi. The concept of computer ethics originated in the 1940s with MIT professor Norbert Wiener, the American mathematician...
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    reference to a computer pointing device is in Bill English's July 1965 publication, "Computer-Aided Display Control". This likely originated from its resemblance...
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    John McCarthy (September 4, 1927 – October 24, 2011) was an American computer scientist and cognitive scientist. He was one of the founders of the discipline...
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  • origins of computer-related terms or terms used in the computing world (i.e., a list of computer term etymologies). It relates to both computer hardware...
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