Odds

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Odds Ends

• FREC135 011 04S
• 04/06/04

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Midterm

• Get grades overview Thursday

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Assignment 5
Only yellow cells should be input as numbers
(from assumption set) all others are formulas.
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• Hardware in the News

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Trends

• Smaller
• Portable
• Wireless
• Multimedia-capable

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Trends

• Convergence
• Phone, VCR, TV, PDA, GameBoy, Camera
• TV, VCR, Computer (TiVo1, Digital Cable ,Windows
  XP MCE, MythTV)
• Telephone, Internet, Cable
• Cable Modem (CATV), DSL (Telephone)
• VoIP Voice Over IP
• VoD Video on Demand

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Trends

• Ubiquitous Computing
• Voice Recognition, speech
• Pervasive, wireless connectivity
• Smaller, less obtrusive devices

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Moores Law Keeps Going

• http//democratandchronicle.com/biznews/0403FA3QGA
  C_business.shtml

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Moores Second Law?
http//www.wired.com/wired/archive/12.04/start.htm
l?pg2?twwn_tophead_9
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Gates Hardware will be free in 10 years

• http//story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmplstoryu/nm/
  20040329/tc_nm/tech_microsoft_gates_dc

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Whats to Come?
http//www.lge.com/products/homenetwork/html/lge_h
omenetwork.jsp
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Whats to Come?
http//www.lginternetfamily.co.uk/aircon.asp
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Whats to Come?
http//www.media.mit.edu/wearables/
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Whats to come?
http//www.computerworld.com/databasetopics/data/s
tory/0,10801,90529,00.html
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Hardware

• Be sure to review the Hardware chapter of
  Computing Essentials