- •Lesson 1
- •Text a a first look at computers
- •Text b a short history of the personal computer
- •Text c renewing your license with a touchscreen
- •Lesson 2
- •Text a types of computers
- •Text b steve jobs and the NeXt computer
- •Text c learning a foreign language with hypertext
- •Lesson 3
- •Text a living with computers
- •Text b bits of history
- •Text c hot rod chips
- •Lesson 4
- •Text a elements of hardware
- •Text b history of the chip
- •Text c software down on the farm
- •Lesson 5
- •Text a memory
- •Internal Memory
- •Text b engineering with cad
- •Text c help for nurses from helpmate
- •Lesson 6
- •Text a elements of hardware
- •Input/Output Telecommunication
- •Text b the first computer
- •Text c creating 3-d models with a digitizer
- •Lesson 7
- •Text a types of software
- •Text b generations of computers
- •Text c monitoring weather at portland general electric
- •Lesson 8
- •Text a software package terminology
- •Text b bits of history – software
- •Text c surviving in kuwait
- •Lesson 9
- •Text a types of software
- •Integrated Software
- •Text b the “father” of the mouse
- •Text c data base helps fight on aids
- •Additional materials texts networks supporting the way we live
- •Modern networks
- •Workstation
- •What is dsp?
- •From Analog to Digital
- •Blinding Speed
- •DsPs versus Microprocessors
- •Different dsPs For Different Jobs
- •Dsp Evolution
- •Things that have dsPs
- •Robots Definitions
- •History
- •Early modern developments
- •Modern developments
- •General-purpose autonomous robots
- •Dedicated robots
- •Computer-aided manufacturing
- •Integration with plm and the extended enterprise
- •Basic and the first pc
- •Tools of the trade
- •Is "bug-free" software possible?
- •Prison inmates pass their time with programming
- •All circuits are busy
- •A data base with a view
- •Computer-aided school bus routing
- •Smart workers for smart machines
- •Robotics and the chip
- •The importance of software
- •" I ’ ll have the usual"
- •Exercises
- •Infinitives
- •Topics general information about the usa
- •Usa history, customs and traditions.
- •First programmers
- •My plans for future
- •My future profession
- •Glossary
Lesson 8
Exercise 8.1
Give the synonyms to the following words.
To use, general, easy, complexity, totally, difficult, to require, common, different, way, to choose, particular, desired, to call, to make, to result in, data, opposite, necessary, to indicate, to operate, earlier, to perform, quickly, disadvantage, to learn, of coarse, a set, to allow, actually, great, easy, to continue, completely, to apply, to generate, to create, to connect, diagram.
Exercise 8.2
Translate the following word combinations paying attention to infinitives.
1. The group works hard to coordinate the research…
2. To coordinate the research means to exchange…
3. The research to be coordinated deals with…
4. Hardly the group was supposed to coordinate the research…
5. To coordinate the research, the group…
6. The group supposed the research to coordinate the efforts…
7. The work is to coordinate …
8. The work is to be coordinated…
9. The work to be coordinated, researches...
10. Researchers had to coordinate the work to be able…
11. To work in group one is to coordinate the work…
12. The work is hard to be coordinated…
13. The work is hardly to be coordinated…
14. We heard the work be coordinated…
15. The work to be coordinated the researchers should…
16. The work to be coordinated researches the influence of…
17. The research is reported to have been coordinated by…
18. They are known to be coordinating their researches…
19. Should research be coordinated, the group could…
20. To coordinate the research they were ordered to work out…
Exercise 8.3
Translate the following sentences paying attention to infinitives.
The original developers, US Robotics and 3Com, appear to have been taken by surprise by the huge success of the product and it was left to a startup, Handspring, to make the running in terms of innovation.
However, Palm seems to be sticking with its proprietary SD expansion technology rather than choosing one of the more widely used industry standard alternatives.
While questions remain over the traditional quirkiness of the Psion products, this is unlikely to have a negative impact on the Symbian platform itself, and developers who focus on that are likely to do extremely well.
Microsoft obviously expects developers to move over to it rapidly, as it becomes a key output format in the next release of Visual Studio.
Internet service providers have invested over US $1 billion in internet-based telephony systems only to find more and more customers sending voice over instant messaging.
The system could respond that, for instance, the user is 85 percent likely to be back in the office within 20 minutes.
Teens hardly use e-mail, and when they do, often it’s merely to exchange documents, or to communicate with the adult world.
John Hennessy is the first computer scientist to head such a large and diverse U.S. university (Stanford).
For someone about to enter the job market, this was not a bad position to be in.
To implement the complex 3-D transformations, which required using floating-point arithmetic the design resorted to microcode, a series of stored instructions that are not program addressable.
There were two issues to deal with, a technical one and a business one.
The publisher expected lifetime sales of the book to be about 15 000; it hit that number the first year.
Faults that escape testing will annoy these people, but you are likely to get back properly documented fault reports.
To compete successfully in so large a market calls for heavy investment.
When first released, the Tuning Wizard was the only commercial tool to advise the administrator on how to make change to a database’s design so as to speed up a query and calculate potential performance improvements.
He says it’s time for basic research to play an even greater role in universities, and that corporations need to commit to funding such research.
The technology will be capable of theoretical peak transmission speed of 2.4 Mb/s, though average download rates are expected to be around 600 kb/s.
The process of developing a software solution based on plans and schedules containing estimates, assumptions and other uncertainties – not to mention the people factor – is a risky business.