CSCI 1100 Study Guide - Quiz Guide: Bram Cohen, Pointing Device, Sliders
30 Oct 2014
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Mark weiser- was a chief scientist at xerox parc father of ubiquitous computing. Ben shneiderman- human computer interaction, developing new ideas, methods, and tools such as the direct manipulation interface, and his eight rules of design. Shawn fanning- developing napster, one of the first popular peer-to-peer filesharing. Bram cohen- author of the peer-to-peer (p2p) bittorrent protocol, as well as the first file sharing program to use the protocol, also known as bittorrent. Jon johansen- from norway wrote decss that decodes css - wanted to watch movies on his. Linux computer - eight studios sued publisher for violating dcma acquitted, courts ruling he had the right to access information on a dvd that he had purchased. Ram- random access memory- stores program instructions and data temp. Random because information can be stored in any order on the memory stick. Volatile memory- data is g-o-n-e when power is shut off:cpu"s memory (cache), dram.
