Roger Bannister

Roger Bannister

• Bannister was the first person to run the first sub-four-minute mile, as well as being a physician and academic. He achieved this feat on May 6^th 1954 in Oxford. His actual time was 3 minutes and 59.4 seconds.
• Well in this specific instance, Bannister had minimal training and had focused most of his energies on his becoming a doctor.
•  The technology that must have helped him achieve his goal would have been the technology to tell and record time for when he trained.

Reflection: I think that Bannister’s achievement is a pretty amazing one because he didn’t train all that much and was still able to set the record that he did.

Computer Science Innovations Prt5

Computer Science Innovations Prt5

•                 The innovation I have researched is the slowly growing technology of teleportation.  Scientist is able to teleport information and even electrons from one location to another. This couldn’t have been done without the continuous study of quantum physics.
•                 When this technology finally grows large enough to be able to transport objects, and even humans, the technology will help the world in regards to transportation.
•                 This technology will solve modern transportation being able to send someone from one location to another in seconds.
•                 I think that this innovation is fantastic and I can’t wait until it teleportation becomes a reality.

Computer Science Innovations prt4

Computer Science Innovations Prt4

• The innovation I found was an electric bus that can travel 350 miles on one single charge. The bus, titled the Catalyst E2 Series electric vehicle, is a zero emission vehicle and on one charge it’s estimated that the bus can get through one entire day’s job without needed to recharge again.
• This innovation would impact everyone relying on busses for transportation, and quite frankly the entire world would benefit from its zero emission.
• The problems it might solve are the issues of greenhouse gases and pollution, as well as creating cheaper modes of fuel for the busses.
• I think this is a great innovation and I hope that this electric bus becomes the norm for the country, and hopefully the world.

Nathan Sawaya

Nathan Sawaya

1. The excellence achieved by Sawaya is that he is a world famous LEGO artist. He is the only person to be recognized as both a LEGO Master Builder and a LEGO Certified Professional.
2. Sawaya’s excellence was achieved by practicing his master craft and being determined to do only LEGO art.
3. Technology impacted Sawaya because without the technology to create, package, and ship LEGOs he would have never discovered LEGOs in the first place.

Reflection: I think that this example of Sawaya’s excellence is a perfect way to show that anything is possible and with skill and luck you can become very successful doing something you love.

Computer Science Innovation prt3

Computer Science Innovations prt3

1)      Gumby Robots are new 3d printed devices that are soft and bendable robots that are able to snap back to their original shape when heated. These Gumby Robots are planned to be a big advancements to Origami Robots or medicine delivery robots.

2)      These Gumby Bots would be able to help many because of its various possible uses.

3)      They could solve various problems such as helping with medicine delivery to patients, or delicate operations that require small robots and movements, or solar panel technology since they can sense and react to heat. The possibilities are endless.

4)      I think this innovation is incredible and will hopefully be able to help many because these Gumby Robots are brilliant.

Blown to Bits Chapter 3 Summary

Blown to Bits Chapter 3 Summary

This chapter focuses mainly on the hidden information within various documents and files inside a computer. The chapter talks about how these hidden information can harm us or help us. It gave examples of mistakes companies and government agencies have made because of their ignorance towards the hidden information of these documents or files. The chapter also talks about how files are just bits and any letter, symbols, pixel, etc. is just a binary string. The chapter also talks about how the binary strings are interpreted and how one string of binary digits can mean something completely different if interpreted in a different way.

Alex Hattori

Alex Hattori

1. Hattori is a yo-yo champion at the young age 12 back in 2010. Since then he has won more contests and owns a line of yo-yos that sell up to $107.
2. His excellence was achieved through hard practice and diligence. Training and dedication must have been a big part of his career.
3.  Technology has impacted him because without video sharing sites and news sites, he wouldn’t have gotten so popular.

Blown to BIts Ch2 Summary

Blown to Bits Ch2 Summary

          The Chapter mostly compared today’s electronic culture to George Orwell’s !984. The chapter talked about how we as a society have willingly given up our privacy and freedoms, but in order to help us make life easier. The chapter heavily focuses on how the technologies that take away our freedoms also benefit us with everyday situations as well as some extreme situations such as bombings or terrorist attacks.

Computer Science Innovations pt2

Computer Science Innovation pt2

A)     The innovation I researched is 3D printed prosthetics. 3D printed prosthetics are just like regular prosthetics but they are 3d printed. The program to create them was created by a man named Ivan Owen who had posted a video of a mechanical hand he built for a cosplay. This gained attention from a man in Africa who had lost his fingers in a woodworking accident. With his help, Owen was able to create a prosthetic from his 3D printer. A while after he created a group of 100 people called e-NABLE in which he shared the blueprints for his prosthetics in a Google+ chat.

B)      This will impact anyone in need of prosthetics, especially those who can’t afford the ones made commercially.

C)      These prosthetics are way cheaper to make than the ones that are otherwise sold by companies.  Without Owen, prosthetics would cost nearly thousands of dollars, but now you can build one for a mere hundreds of dollars.

D)     I think this is an amazing innovation and I am so glad it will help those in need who couldn’t afford it prior. 

Carl and Margaret Karcher

Carl and Margaret Karcher

1. Carl and Margaret Karcher are the co-founders of the popular chain restaurant Carl’s Jr.
2. They were able to achieve this by opening a hot dog/tamale stand and soon enough they opened their own restaurant in Anaheim. With perseverance and dedication they were able to quickly expand their business into the conglomerate it is today.
3.  Technology could have impacted them and their business because of advertisement. Once televised advertisements were invented, that would have significantly boosted the number of customers and made their company a big success.

Reflection: I think this is a fine example of excellency and what I can learn from these two is hard work and dedication can amount to amazing possibilities.

Social Networks

Social Networks

A. Social Networking is described by Google as “the use of dedicated websites and applications to interact with other users, or to find people with similar interests to oneself.” Social Networks are basically used to express yourself and meet and interact with new people.

B. Social Networks impact almost everyone who has internet and/or a cell phone. Social Networks are available to  almost anyone, no matter what age or social status.

C. Social Networking solves the issue of (almost) free long distance messaging. As long as you have internet and a phone or computer, you can easily contact anyone that has the same social network as you. Social Networking also makes it easy to express yourself, whether it be your individuality or your political views.

D. I think social networking is an excellent innovation because of its convenience and revolutionary effect. Almost everyone, even companies, have social network accounts and it is an excellent source of fun, information, and creativity.