What is Google’s Project Glass?

Project Glass is an attempt of the company to create wearable computing and is in fact a chic pair of glasses that comes with an incorporated heads-up display with the battery concealed within the frame. Wearable computing is not something new, but Google’s can do approach and a bulging bank account has brought about this pioneering product.

Google’s development and research program has given birth to Project Glass, an amplified HMD or head-mounted display. The projected purpose of the glasses is to have hands- free display of information that is presently available in many modern smartphones. The product is expected to allow Internet interaction through natural language voice commands. Google’s Android will be the operating system for the unusual glasses.

How does Project Glass work?

It is expected that Google’s Project Glass will use AMOLED or transparent LCD display to bring information right before the eyes. With integrated GPS and camera it will stay aware of the location and will allow information scrolling and clicking just by leaning the head, which is apparently, fairly simple to learn. The gadget will employ voice output and input.

This contrivance will offer ways to seek information, view videos online, read text messages and even post pictures on social networks without shuffling any hand-held gadget. In the beginning of 2013, Explorer Edition Google Glass is likely to be available for the Google I/O developers in the US for an amount of US$1,500. Google is hoping that programmers using it will recommend some improvements as well as develop applications to amplify the usability of the glasses.

What can be done with Google Glasses?

Google’s video suggests that people will get super-being ability to talk to people from one corner of the eye, locate places with sat-nav, share photographs or even know when your favorite restaurant is closed just by slight movement of the head. It is a revolution and will make life simpler.

Project Glass: One day…

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Creating a business website

There is a wide range of solutions when it comes to building your own website. Almost no programming skills are needed in order to create an internet presence. But those who want to give a unique look to their website should probably opt for a professional programmer. Business owners who want to try and start selling their products online should look out for a provider that also offers e-commerce services. Such services include the installation of an online shop, shopping carts and everything else you need to sell your goods or services online.
A professional web hosting provider should also offer an around-the-clock costumer support since there is always a possibility that bugs might appear. The internet has become the epicentre of business, you just have to know how to handle it properly!

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KNX as a protocol

Through product certification, KNX guarantees interoperability and interaction devices between different manufacturers. KNX is the only standard that meets full HBES certification schemes for products, training centers and even people. KNX require a high level of production and quality control through all stages of the product’s life. PC Tool Software (ETS) enables the planning, engineering and configuration steps for all KNX certified products. The PC tool has more independency because it provides the user the possibility of combining products from different manufacturers in a single installation. Is an open standard and contains functions for most common applications in building automation and housing. New features are proposed by the technique committee and are then reviewed for approval and analyzed by a panel of interoperability (committees consist of representatives from the KONNEX Association). The KNX standard allows more topology types, but not the ring topology.

The standard has almost 7000 products groups in the catalogue and they include alarm monitors, audio and video distribution, energy management and energy, gas, water metering, lightning control and more. Among the 220 ​​members there are Toshiba, Jung, Bosh Termotechnic, Cisco Systems and Schneider Electric Industries. The principle that forms the basis for KNX is to be totally independent of hardware platform or architecture that runs on the processor.

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Artificial Intelligence – an area of ​​ongoing interest

The artificial intelligence is an area that has the purpose of developing machines, computers that are able to solve problems for which conventional methods aren’t efficient. What its developers want from this domain is to develop a skill of “thinking”, “to reason” and therefore to allow the program to automatically develop appropriate algorithm in different encountered situations. It has two basic ideas: studying human mind to understand how it works and, the second one, it is related to human mind and the representation of its processes. Also, there are two different approaches for this: the first one is “top-down approach” and the second one is “symbolic approach to artificial intelligence” (considers that any intelligent system is a physical symbol processing). There were three time periods in its evolution: the first period was represented by games and theories demonstration; the second one consisted in understanding the natural language and the third one was represented by evolved expert systems.

Artificial intelligence aims ideally to learn how machines can develop intelligence similar to humans. In measuring the machine’s intelligence is used the Turing test. But in the near future no computer can pass it. The history of artificial intelligence actually talks about its accomplishments. For a long time, this discipline was maintained in the experiments area but, recently, its researches began to be regarded with interest by industry, mainly due to expert systems.

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CERN – the European internet

On December 12, 1991 at Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC) was installed the first Web server and Web pages which linked to the Central Library. But the first Web server was made ​​almost a year before at the European Centre for Nuclear Research (CERN) in Geneva, Switzerland, and was named nxoc01.cern.ch and then info.cern.ch. Even the first web page presented the project. The Internet became a cultural phenomenon widely spread when a young British computer scientist Tim Berners Lee at CERN in Geneva established the first prototype development of the World Wide Web. Until 1990, CERN server remained the most comprehensive in Europe, decisively influencing the acceptance and introduction of WWW in Internet technology. From 1992 CERN made ​​publicly available the World Wide Web interface for accessing documents. In July 1994 Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and CERN announced the creation of World Wide Web Organization, later known as the World Wide Web Consortium or W3C, whose director was Tim Berners Lee. Today W3C coordinates technical development and evolution of Web standards. Until 1993 the center of gravity for Web technologies was at CERN in Switzerland. But from the beginning of that year, a young graduate of the University of Illinois, Marc Andreessen helped in changing it in favor of the United States. Another success of CERN and Tim Berners Lee is the notion of hypertext the way is known today. He was preoccupied about the introduction of the Internet’s hypertext, in the process of search and retrieval of documents. The notion existed since 1965 when Ted Nelson introduces it.

CERN along with other key – instruments helped in developing over time the Internet, each having an important role.

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A protocol and its importance

Technology TCP / IP forms the basis for a global web that connects universities, industrial and commercial enterprises, government institutions, private homes, etc. Among those who participated in the establishment and use of a global inter-networks based on TCP / IP are the National Science Foundation (NSF), Department of Energy (DOE), Department of Defense (DOD), Health and Human Services Agency (HHS) and National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), all from U.S. This inter-global network is also known under the names of the ARPA / NSF Internet, TCP / IP Internet or the global Internet. It has demonstrated the viability of TCP / IP technology and that it allows the interconnection of computer networks based on heterogeneous technologies. Since TCP / IP for Internet does not come from a particular manufacturer or a recognized professional society, a group was created to set technical direction and standardization of protocols. The group was called the Internet Architecture Board. Their role is to decide which protocols are a necessary part of TCP / IP and to establish official policies and their implementation.

The official Internet protocol suite called TCP / IP, named after its two main standards, can be used to communicate in any set of interconnected networks. Thus, some companies use the TCP-IP protocol to interconnect all networks in the enterprise, even if none of them has any connection with external network, other groups use the TCP / IP for communication between users within large geographical distances.

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The history of ARPANET

There already was made a test network by the mid-60s. Meanwhile, the U.S. government began to examine the impact that computers could have on private education and business sectors. The original goal was obviously improving network communications within the Department of Defense. Later it was divided into two networks: one of them called MILNet and the other continued to bear the name ARPANET. In the same time university networks have been developed and named BITNET and CSNet – Computer Science Network – designed to facilitate and develop exchanges of information within the network of universities. The Pentagon funded ARPA to create a network of “supercomputers” (primitive by today’s standards) to be interconnected and to communicate easily with each other. In Autumn of 1969 the first supercomputer was installed at UCLA in Los Angeles. Three months later, four computers, called nodes, were linked together in a network called ARPAnet. In 1971, ARPAnet had 15 knots, and by the end of 1972 will add another 30. By connecting to the ARPANET, scientists and researchers might share each computer facilities. In 1973 the first international network connections were made and in 1989 Tim Benners Lee drafted the first rules for World Wide Web.

ARPANET led to the creation and development of the Internet, even if at first it had a different purpose and was later publicly used. In 2006 the number of Internet users exceeded 1 billion and this couldn’t be possible without ARPANET network.

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Dell – how it was developed over time

The first computer that Dell produces was “Turbo PC” in 1985, sold directly to the customers through national magazines.  In 1988 PC Limits changed the name to “Dell Computer Corporation” and started growing and spreading globally. After its development, in 1992 Dell was included in Top 500 of Fortune Magazine and in 1996 launched on its site products for selling, in this way being easier for the clients to make purchases and cover a larger world area speculating the power of internet commerce and its users. Being a successful company, with a high turnover and clients all over the world, the Dell company started making some other products in 2002, including digital audio players, printers and televisions. From 2003 it is knows under the name “Dell Inc.”. In 2008 the company occupied second place on the market in selling computational techniques. After this year Dell Inc. made some acquisitions like “Software as a Service” and “Perot Systems”. Dell made so much progress over time, starting with the first PC and continuing with the other products that it offers. Clients all over the world can trust its quality and post-sales services.

Starting with a capital of just 1000 Dollars, Michael Dell founded a company that today is worth so much more. Currently, companies worldwide are producing enough to satisfy every taste and budget requirement. Names such as Apple, HP, IBM, and Dell compete in offering revolutionary portable computers that soon will be able to serve in more purposes and activities.

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The history of an extraordinary computer

The company had two co-founders, Steve Jobs (who will resign in 1985 after an internal power struggle, and will come back in 1997, meantime being co-founder at Pixar and Next Inc.) and Steve Wozniak (he created Apple I and Apple II). Thanks to Macintosh computers, Apple became known all around the world, representing a breakthrough in technology. Macintosh was released in 1984 and is known as “the first affordable home computer with a GUI or graphical user interface”. It had a mouse and a keyboard without arrow keys or Ctrl key, which were invented later. The commercial used for promoting the PC, during the SuperBowl, remained in famous. Also, the “Byte” magazine used it on its cover. In 1980’s it had a great impact upon the market although it has a high price but, because of the IBM’s PC release, in the 1990’s the sales decreased. Releasing the Macintosh Portable in 1991 wasn’t such a good idea, so Macintosh was revived in 1998 through iMac all-in-one. In 1997 a partnership with Microsoft is made, the results being: Internet Explorer the default browser, Microsoft Office for Macintosh and an investment of 150 million Dollars. Nowadays the Mac technology include Mac mini, Mac Pro, MacBook, MacBook Air and the MacBook Pro laptops.

The Apple’s history started in 1976 and is still going forward as its products are requested on the market. With an online store and more than 200 stores, the Apple company keeps developing hardware and software products.

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IBM – the history of a great company

Under its previous name, IBM was founded on 15th of June 1911 in Binghamton, New York, after the merging of Tabulating Machine Corporation, The Computing Scale Corporation and International Time Recording Company. On 14th of February 1924 CRT changed its name becoming International Business Machines Corporation. The first computer made by this company was IBM 701 in 1954, which can be considered a concept of artificial inteligence. Only 19 such computers were created and could be rented for $ 15,000 per month. The first model was installed in the IBM headquarters in New York. The other models were used by airlines companies, government agencies, research laboratories and the American Meteorological Institute. Other computers that followed this one were IBM System 360 (the first family of six computers, compatible with 40 peripheral systems, able to work together) created in 1964, IBM 1490, IBM 7000. After creating IBM 701 the first programming language came out, being named FORTRAN. In the early ’80s IBM launched the 5150 model which came with built-in floppy disk and run MS-DOS operating system. Its price was 1565 dollars.

Throughout the 1980s IBM participated, along with various companies to develop software for the PC architecture, including collaboration with Microsoft for MS-DOS and OS / 2. However, in 2005, the company IBM sold its computer division to Chinese manufacturer Lenovo. Nowadays IBM company is still a great power on software and hardware markets developing high quality products.

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