Computer Fundamentals and Programming Module 1

1. COMPUTER
FUNDAMEN
TALS AND
PROGRAMMI
PROFESSOR: CERBITO, RHEA V.
STUDENT: NASAM, CRISPIN JR. B.

2. Exercises
1. This project will be a running project throughout the entire
year. Your job is to research articles about new technologies
coming out. Every three weeks or so you will bring in an article
that talks about a new technology (either just came out or about
to come out). As a class that today you will discuss each person’s
article and the technology that goes with it. The goal is to have a
good understanding of how new technologies come around and
how quickly they spring up. If we were to discuss one technology
that came out today, by the time you actually read this it will be
old news and some other technology might even already be
around to make it better or replace it.

3. Wearable-tech glove translates sign
language

4. Matthew Chin | June 29, 2020
UCLA bioengineers have designed a glove-like device that can translate
American Sign Language into English speech in real time through a
smartphone app. Their research is published in the journal Nature Electronics.
The system includes a pair of gloves with thin, stretchable sensors that run the
length of each of the five fingers. These sensors, made from electrically
conducting yarns, pick up hand motions and finger placements that stand for
individual letters, numbers, words and phrases.
The device then turns the finger movements into electrical signals, which are
sent to a dollar-coin–sized circuit board worn on the wrist. The board transmits
those signals wirelessly to a smartphone that translates them into spoken
words at the rate of about a one word per second.

5. 2. Now that you have learned a lot about the history of information
technology, create a timeline that covers all of the key topics from 3000B.C.
to the present. Make sure to separate your timeline into the 4 different ages
and include all of the technologies covered in the lesson as well as other key
technologies you research online. Your timeline can be in the form of a
website, powerpoint, or anything you find to be creative.

6. Hoping to provide a valuable new tool for the hearing impaired,
UCLA bioengineers have created an innovative, wearable glove-like
device capable of translating American Sign Language into English
speech in real time, via a smartphone app.
The results of the team's research were published this week in the
online journal Nature Electronics. Their unique system employs a pair
of customized gloves equipped with thin, stretchable sensors that
span the length of each of the five digits. The sensors, which are
fabricated from electrically conducting yarns, interpret hand motions
and finger positions that represent individual letters, numbers, words,
and phrases.
“Our hope is that this opens up an easy way for people who use sign
language to communicate directly with non-signers without needing
someone else to translate for them,” explained Jun Chen, an assistant
professor of bioengineering at the UCLA Samueli School of
Engineering and principal investigator on the project. “In addition,
we hope it can help more people learn sign language themselves.
Previous wearable systems that offered translation from American
Sign Language were limited by bulky and heavy device designs or
were uncomfortable to wear.”

7.  Pre Mechanical Age
 Mechanical Age
 Electromechanical Age
 Electronic Age

8. The Pre Mechanical Age (3000 B.C. – 1415 A.D.)
The earliest age of technology has been dated back to the pre mechanical age (between 3000 B.C. and 1450 A.D.).
Human beings at that time primarily communicated with each other using simple picture drawings called
petroglyphs. They created these drawings on rock. This form of language was used to tell a story, to keep record
of how many animals one owned and to mark their territory. This eventually led to the arrival of the first writing
system known as ¨cuniform¨. Instead of using pictures to express words, signs were composed to correspond
with spoken sounds. Afterwards, the Phoenician alphabet was created which consisted of a more simplified writing
technique using symbols to express single syllables and consonants. Later on, vowels were added and names were
given to the letters to create the alphabet that we use today.
As the alphabets and the writing systems became more popular and common, there was more and more recorded
information. This resulted in finding better ways to communicate and keep record of information. The first writing
material was simply a pen like object to create markings in wet clay. This led to more useful forms of writing
materials from writing on bark, leaves, leather to writing on the papyrus plant to making paper with rags to the
making of modern-day paper we use today. However, as more and more people used these new early
technologies, they had to confront a new problem. How could they safely store all of this information for a long
period of time? This resulted in different methods for record keeping such as clay tablets and scrolls which led to
books and libraries.
The numbering systems and the abacus, the first calculator, were also invented during this period.

9. PETROGLYPH (1300 – late 1860’s)
NUMBERING SYSTEM (Around 100 A.D)
ABACUS (100 A.D – 875 A.D)
PAPYRUS PLANT (PAPER) (3000 B.C. – 1100 A.D)
CUNEIFORM (3400 BC)A

10. The Mechanical Age (1450 – 1840)
During the mechanical age (between 1450 and 1840) many extraordinary
inventions took place. This is where we can see similarities between our modern-
day technologies and the rising technologies back then.
Due to many new technological inventions, there was a great interest in
computation and information. There were several machines that were invented,
one of them being the printing press. With this new movable, metal-type printing
machine, the process of composing pages took only a few, short minutes which
made written technology easily accessible to the public. This led to other useful
techniques such as the development of book indexes and the use of page
numbers. These methods of organizing information paved the way of the
development of files and databases.

11. SLIDE RULER
(1622)
PASCALINE
(1942)
LEIBNIZ ENGINE
(1672 -1694)
BABBAGE’S
ENGINE
(1834)

12. The Electromechanical Age (1840 – 1940)
During the time of the electromechanical age (between 1840 and 1940), the beginning of
telecommunication emerged. Many revolutionary technologies were invented in this stage
that led to modern information technology systems. First, a new method of communicating
information was discovered with the voltaic battery. This discovery was the first electrical
battery that created and stored electricity. Afterwards, the telegraph was invented to
communicate with others over great distances through the use of electricity. This led to the
development of Morse Code. This was a system built to communicate with others by
breaking down the alphabet into dots and dashes, transformed into electrical impulses and
transmitted over a wire. This was very similar to today´s digital technologies that break
down information. Shortly afterwards, the telephone and radio were invented. Later on,
the first digital computer was created. It consisted of electromechanical computing
components, data and program readers, automatic typewriters and input/output and
control readers. It was different from our modern computers but it resulted an interest to
explore other ways to make the system smaller and to operate more effectively.

13. VOLTAIC BATTERY
(LATE 18TH CENTURY)
TELEGRAPH
(Early 1800s)
MORSE CODE
(1835)
TELEPHONE
(1876)
RADIO
(1894)
HARVARD MARK 1
(1940)

14. The Electronic Age (1940 – Present)
The electronic age (from 1940 to present day) is the stage of information technology
that we currently live in. It first started when electronic equipment including
computers began to take place. At the beginning of this stage, it was realized that
electronic vacuum tubes could be used instead of electromechanical parts. The first
high-speed digital computer was the ENIAC, Electronic Numerical Integrator and
Computer. It was able to solve a large class of numerical problems through
reprogramming. It was also one thousand times faster than that of electro-
mechanical machines from the previous age. However, the problem with the
ENIAC was that it didn’t have the capacity to store program instructions in its
memory. Then, the EDSAC, Electronic Delay Storage Automatic Calculator was
created and was recognized as the first stored-program computer. Afterwards, the
world’s first commercial computer was invented known as LEO (Lyons Electronic
Office).

15. 1940-1969
• COLORED TELEVISION
• TRANSISTOR RADIO
• ENIGMA
• BASIC HEWLETT
• MODEM
• PDP-1
• COMPUTER DISK STORAGE SYSTEM
• ENIAC
• UNIVAC-1
• COBOL AND FORTRAN
• EDSAC
• OHP PROJECTOR

16. 1970 - 1999
• WIRELESS INTERNET
• Q4R CODES
• LINUX COMPUTER
• INTERNET
• CD/DVD
• MP3 PLAYER
• APPLE 1 AND 2
• FLOPPY DISK
• SMART PHONES
• DIGITAL CAMERA
• GOOGLE
2000 - 2008
• ELECTRONIC BOOKS
• IPOD MP3 PLAYER
• ENERGY ABSORBING MATERIAL
• SELF LEARNING MATERIALS
• BIT TORRNET INTERNET
• ROOMBA-ROBOTS
• TOUCHSCREEN
• GRAPHENE
• COMPUTER

17. 2006 - 2017
• E-BOOK
• IPHONE
• IPAD
• 3D TEVELIVISION
• PNEUMATIC TUBE
TRANSFOMATION SYSTEM
• SUPER COMPUTERS
• NAOTECHNOLOGY
2018 - 2022
• QUANTOM NUMBERS
• NEURAL NUMBERS
• ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
• ROBOTICS
• DRONES
• VEHICLE AUTOMATION
• 5G ENHANCED CONNECTION
• WEARABLE – TECH GLOVE

18. THANK
YOU!!!
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