Ashley Haugen

Key Points The LHC was built between 1998 – 2008, with the involvement of 10,000 scientists, and more than 100 nations. A special kind of particle accelerator, it stands almost 600 feet high and has a circumference of 17 miles.  Its role is to enable scientists to observe the results of two particle beams colliding […]

Key Points An object-oriented language is one in which objects interact with each other. These objects may be variables, functions, or methods and must contain data. They must also be connected with other procedures capable of altering their data fields. Believe it or not, computers use languages to communicate with us and with one another […]

Key Points A computer virus is defective code which is meant to replace the actual code in your device to enable hackers to damage your memory. A resident virus is one which infiltrates the disc or drive of your device, and may even infect any other disc or drive connected to it.  It is also […]

Key Points: Around 1440, Johannes Gutenberg invented the movable-type printing press in Germany – a history-changing invention that made books widely accessible and began the “information revolution.” Gutenberg’s masterpiece, The Gutenberg Bible, was published around 1455 and was the first major book to be mass-produced in Europe. It was the beginning of the Western age […]

Key Points: Binary operators are used to compare two numbers and are expressed with symbols that you are familiar with, like +,-, <, *, etc. At its core, it’s basic math: addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, and so on. There are plenty of real world uses for binary operators and binary equations, such as in budgeting […]

Key Points: As you will see, this club contained members who would revolutionize the computing world, and in some ways it is seen as the birth of Silicon Valley. After the more formal part of these meetings was finished, the group would hold a swap meet section to where they would trade and sell parts. […]

Key Points: Alonzo Church was an American logician, mathematician, professor, and philosopher who contributed who invented the Lambda calculus. Church founded the Journal of Symbolic Logic in 1936 and edited its reviews section until 1979. He formulated Church’s theorem, which shows that any recursive definition can be given in terms of its eventual behavior rather […]