Will computers kill chess as a sport?
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From Windows to Linux?
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How did Seymour Cray build supercomputers?
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How to choose a laptop? Specifications, keyboard and battery

The operating system and screen size are not the only important parameters of the laptop. Its ability to process data is linked to the characteristics of components, autonomy largely depends on the capacity of the battery, and the usability is determined by the features of the keyboard and touchpad.

1. Specifications Specifications that describe the brand of the processor, the capacity of the hard drive, the amount of RAM and the type of video card, for many, are nothing more than a set of letters and numbers. But the capabilities and price of a laptop depend on them. More intense tasks, such as 3D games or editing HD video, require more expensive components. CPU. Budget laptops are usually equipped with AMD E Series or Intel Pentium processors. Such systems can easily cope with surfing the Web and communications, but serious computing or media tasks make them difficult. Continue reading

What is Rear Admiral Grace Hopper famous for?

Grace Hopper was an excellent mathematician and one of the first “encoders”, so-called programmers. In the mid-twentieth century, she, as an officer of the US Navy, like everyone who was “close” to computers, worked at Harvard in the department that was engaged in obtaining ballistic tables for artillery tasks.

So Grace Hopper is considered one of the first programmers in the world: she worked on the computer of Mark I, the former, in fact, a giant calculator. The giant Mark I was intended for the computational processes of obtaining artillery ballistic tables, in the already written algorithm, mathematical tasks (modules) of a general nature were provided. Hopper and her colleagues (by the way, there were much more female programmers involved in coding than men) coped with this – they first applied Continue reading

How to get a Turing Award?

The most famous scientific award in the world is undoubtedly the Nobel Prize. It was founded by the famous industrialist and inventor Alfred Nobel (Alfred Bernhard Nobel; 1833 – 1896). The prize has been awarded since 1901 for outstanding achievements in the field of natural sciences: physics, chemistry, biology or medicine.

Two more Nobel Prizes are awarded for achievements in the humanitarian fields: for achievements in the field of literature and for the efforts made in the fight against wars on the planet. Starting from 1969, at the same time with the five prizes listed, another one is awarded – for achievements in the field of economics. The money for the fund from which this premium is paid is allocated by the State Bank of Sweden. Therefore, the prize in economics is called not the Nobel Prize, but the Nobel Prize Continue reading

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