Team5_Exam1_Q2

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Question 2: Write down all the topics of the class presentations and a brief description.

We looked at the true facts versus the false facts of the movie Pirates of Silicon Valley. All the parts that form a computer (7 main things) that a computer needs to work. We watched the movie Pirates of Silicon Valley which shows the story of Steve Jobs and Bill Gates; how they inspired and how they got the idea of making a foundation each one to make computers and a program for it to have many functions besides of writing on a document or graph makers. We learnt about Steve Jobs and Bill Gates as well as what was fact or fiction in their speculated animosity, we all did a presentation on this.

We also looked at the various types of computers, Jennifer´s team did a presentation on tablet PCs while Gabriel´s presentations was of Alienware computers. We presented about several technology advances such as the digital camera, the social networks, the software called Linux, a weird brand with an alien and smart-phones, among others.


 *  Digital camera: we were told about the components of the camera and the importance of them taking a look from the inside, we get explained what are the mega pixels and we saw a time line of the camera. A very good presentation by the way
 * Social networks: We were told the main and more important social networks from a few years until nowadays and thy taught us what are they used for and the advantages and disadvantages of them.
 * Linux: This is a software very fast and safe
 * Touch screen?: Its a magnetic thing .....

We looked too at the changes in computers (how were the first of them) and how they have been advancing through time. We also watched a video of the invention of the first computer and the different types of the computer. Different size of different Mother Board's, the capacity of a RAM memory in a computer and all that you could do in a computer. In that time, the video explained, computers weren't able to do that much but they were useful for people that needed documents or making graphs. Maybe printing too.

We watched the Bob Noice biography video, the one who invented the integrated circuit.