Monday, March 14, 2011

Tech Terms #8

Donn Parker
1. Donn Parker has had over 50 years of computer engineering and programing behind his name.
2. He has worked with most of the major software companies and helped us get more computers.
3. The impact he has had on me is very little because i do not really know how to program a computer.














Clifford Stoll
1. Clifford Stoll has published books about technology and what he does for it and did with it.
2. Stoll has published three books about technology and him catching a major computer hacker.
3. The influence that Stoll has had on me is that i read books alot and i go on my computer alot so they kind of go hand in hand.

Monday, March 7, 2011

Tech Terms #7

Meg Whitman
1. Meg Whitman served as the executive in the Dreamworks films and hasbro items. Meg was also the CEO of Ebay from the year 1998 through 2008. After she left the company grew enormously.
2. The impact Meg Whitman has had on the technology industry is huge, alot of people use Ebay to buy and sell items. Other people bid on them and the price will keep going up and then the last person to bid on them with the highest price will win the item.
3. I use Ebay alot but i mostly look to see whats all on, there are probably millions of items on Ebay, ive only bought a few things off that are little like shoes and clothing.

Mark Dean
1. Mark Dean was the inventor of one of the first computer chips and he also invented the ISA bus.
2. The impact he had on technology is that he was the inventor of one of the first computer chips and we can not run a computer without a computer chip.
3. The impact he has had on me is that i go on the computer everyday to check whats all going on on like Facebook, Yahoo, or Ebay.