STS Information Age

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writes the worlds first computer
Augusta Lady Byron
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proposes the theory of information
james messenger
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invented printing presss
Johannes Gutenberg
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proposed dictionary standardized english spelling
samuel Johnson
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what countries invented the telegraph
great britain and US
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invented electronic amplifying tube
lee de forest
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invented the television camera tube
Zvorkyn
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invented the hypertext
vannevar bush foresaw
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what year library congress was established
1802
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what country invented the woodblock printing
105 AD - Chinese
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who developed the planar transistor
jean hoerni
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develop optical laserdisc
Phillips and MCA
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First computer for the public
attair microcomputer kit
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what year did apple macintosh introduced
1985
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developed hypercard
bill atkinson
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coined the word " Information Anxiety"
Richard Wurman
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Also called the digital age or New media Age
information age
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First known as micro computer
personal computer
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portable computer
laptop
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Pc that is not design for portability
Desktop computer
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huge compute systems
mainframe
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computer that has been improved to provide network services
Server
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no keyboards but touchscreen
Personal Digital Assistant
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Father of infomation theory
Claude E. Shannon
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invented google
larry page and sergey brin
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Microsoft
bill gates
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apple
steve jobs
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Facebook
mark Zuckerberg
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protein sequence data base
SWISS-PROT
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used for comparing sequences
BLAST
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an interactive genome analysis tool
annotator
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tool in identify coding regions and splies sites
gene finder
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First and Largest Single collection of free electronic books
Project Gutenberg
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