Essays about Computers

In “Computers Change the Way We Think”, Sherry Turkle attempts to persuade her readers the human mind is being affected by computers. She also informs her readers how the mind is change by computers using cause and effect. Turkle’s tone is righteous, uneasy, and nostalgic. She wrote to an academic audience and her essay was…

Could you imagine a world without cell phones, calculators, or laptops? We rely on these forms of computers in our daily life without even realizing how life would be without them. It would take hours to solve complex math problems and the only way to communicate with others would be by sending a letter, which…

A computer virus, much like a flu virus, is designed to spread from host to host and has the ability to replicate itself. Similarly, in the same way that flu viruses cannot reproduce without a host cell, computer viruses cannot reproduce and spread without programming such as a file or document. In more technical terms,…

Abstract Quantum computing has developed in the past two decades from a visionary idea to one of the most attracting field of quantum mechanics by combining physics, mathematics & computer science. The nature of computation can be altered if the bits of computer are scaled down to the size of individual atom. The function of…

Abstract Since the emergence of the first computers, it has been only a little bit over half a century, but the changes that the electronic devices have experienced over the years are undoubtedly huge and astounding. If we know that the computers of the 1950s were weighing several tones and occupied whole halls, while today…

Encryption of data is the core of online communication. Without it, it would not be possible to be able to communicate securely with peers across the Internet. Furthermore online banking and intergovernmental communication would be at a large risk to ensuring the privacy of such data. Encryption is the conversion of data from plain text…

So what makes a computer? For companies, it could be a specific application or a feature to help them best accomplish their needs and reach their customers. For teens, it could be a device with good speakers and programs to write papers. For parents, it’s a place to go online shopping and the like. And…

While there is still much research and experimentation to be done with quantum computing, the concept of such a machine makes it very much unlike modern computers, both in design and functionality. As a result, it is predicted to have a much higher processing power to solve intractable problems that are so complex and costly,…

From generation to generation, the technology improvements have been even more advanced than the previous. As time goes on we find new ways to further our knowledge on the digital world and with these new facts that are obtained, we make new inventions that we cannot even imagine until it is right in front of…

In 1941, the Nazi flag flew high on the Eiffel Tower. Britain had been constantly bombarded for over a year by the Luftwaffe. And Alan Turing and his team of codebreakers single-handedly won the entire war for the Allies. In one of the most significant events in the 20th century, Turing developed an electromechanical machine…