From Wikipedia‚ the free encyclopedia The first version of Microsoft Word was developed by Charles Simonyi and Richard Brodie‚ former Xerox programmers hired by Bill Gates and Paul Allen in 1981. Both programmers worked on Xerox Bravo‚ the first Microsoft WYSIWYGword processor. The first Word version‚ Word 1.0‚ was released in October 1983 for Xenix and MS-DOS; it was followed by four very similar versions that were not very successful. The first Windows version was released in 1989‚ with a slightly
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With the new millennium here it seems particularly appropriate to take a moment to consider where we’ve been and to speculate on what lies ahead. One key area of potential innovation is information appliances. My own interest‚ previously at Xerox PARC and most E-books serve the needs of recently at SoftBook Press‚ has focused on trying to understand the people reading text future of reading and what role ebooks might play in that arena. I am information in digital involved in this as
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Topic Summary: Benchmarking Processes http://tutor2u.net/business/strategy/benchmarking.htm Advantages and Disadvantages of Benchmarking. (n.d.). Find Science & Technology Articles‚ Education Lesson Plans‚ Tech Tips‚ Computer Hardware & Software Reviews‚ News and More at Bright Hub. Retrieved September 6‚ 2012‚ from http://www.brighthub.com/office/entrepreneurs/articles/82292.aspx The Benchmarking Process Benchmarking involves looking outward (outside a particular business‚ organization
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6-18-13 Computer strategies and logic Intro to computers The abacus wasn’t electronic but was the first computing device Charles Babbage Mechanical computer developed in 1822 and 1871 w/thousands of moving parts. The Hollerith machine was the first electronically driven machine in the late 1800s Hollerith left the Census bureau in 1896 to establish the Tabulation Machine. Later became IBM The first digital computer built in the basement of Iowa state university in 1937-1942 by John
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capability‚ but this does not classify the human race as all equal. Many characteristics set us apart from each other‚ such as face‚ hair‚ height etc. We could be considered same if we inherit similar characteristics‚ but no 2 individuals are both with a xerox copy of the exact same body parts‚ personality‚ nationality
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this time to communicate with their employees more. They need to insure that communication is frequent‚ consistent and honest. 2. Use of technology‚ employee retention‚ and HR development have been at the core of HR becoming more strategic at Xerox. Why have those areas been so key? I believe that the use of technology‚ employee retention and HR development has become key with all business today‚ because there has been such a change in the work force today. With the economy being as
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Write a memo to the head of an organization you know well (please identify the organization!) suggesting how that organization could integrate some of Doug Hall’s ideas about creativity into his or her organization (assume that this person has read the Inc. article). Of course‚ you should consider and address the major barriers this person may have with these ideas. As always‚ but especially now‚ be creative! Dear Meg Whitman‚ are you ready to recycle the clunky‚ outdated HP laptop that awaited
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more consumers. In 2007‚ half of all TVs sold in the United States will be flat panel TVs. The underlying technology for flat panel displays was invented in the United States in the late 1960s by RCA. But after RCA and rivals Westinghouse and Xerox opted not to pursue the technology‚ the Japanese company Sharp made aggressive investments in flat panel displays. By the early 1990s Sharp was selling the first flat panel screens‚ but as the Japanese economy plunged into a decade-long recession‚
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of the details Mrs. Wood provided by indicating‚ Mrs. Wood and her staff are responsible from the time the patient enters the door until FHC has received payment for the service. Mr. Brunson also encouraged front desk personnel to stop using the Xerox copies of the registration forms they currently use because the black and white copies are our image. He acknowledged Mrs. Carolyn Wigfall for the change in our
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time OO concepts are applied in the areas of databases‚ software engineering‚ artificial intelligence‚ computer systems and have their roots in the SIMULA language‚ which was proposed in the late 1960s. The Smalltalk programming language developed at Xerox PARC8 in the 1970’s‚ was one of the first languages to explicitly incorporate additional OO concepts‚ such as message passing and inheritance. It is known as a pure OO programming language. An object typically has two components: state (value) and
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