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U. S. Army Research Laboratory: The Eniac Story

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This site provides a detailed history of ENIAC, the world's first digital computer developed by Army Ordnance to compute World War II ballistic firing tables. Includes specifics on how the computer performed its calculations.
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Word Processing Activity: Rsi Checklist

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This personal site provides a student activity that allows learners the opportunity to practice computer skills in creating a bulleted list. The activity also involves student's in completing research on repetitive stress injury to...
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Brown University

Douglas Engelbart and "The Mother of All Demos"

For Students 9th - 10th
An article on Douglas Engelbart's presentation at the 1968 Fall Joint Computer Conference, which featured the "mother of all demos".
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Western Illinois University: Hypertext: Douglas Engelbart

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This article on Douglas Engelbart includes links to further related information.
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Alex: Land Surveying Project

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This project resulted from of the collaboration of a computer aided drafting teacher, Chris Bond, and a math teacher, Lee Cable, (Hewitt-Trussville High School) to provide higher math expectations in CT and real life application in...
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Science Buddies: The Tree of Life Ii (Advanced)

For Students 9th - 10th
Imagine that a biologist arrived at your big family reunion and had no idea who were sisters, cousins, aunts, uncles, etc., but tried to sort it out by how all of you look. Just based on how you look, would s/he be able to guess whether...

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