3rd Homework

2008.03.26 - 03.28

"WWW"

This week we learned about World Wide Web (known as "WWW', "Web" or "W3") .

The WWW is the universe of network-accessible information, the embodiment of human knowledge. The World Wide Web began as a networked information project at CERN, where Tim Berners-Lee, now Director of the World Wide Web Consortium w3c, developed a vision of the project.
The Web has a body of software, and a set of protocols and conventions. Through the use hypertext and multimedia techniques, the web is easy for anyone to roam, browse, and contribute to. An early talk about the Web gives some more background on how the Web was originally conceived. We think about 2 questions that first is 'A collaboratively authored ' and 'Second is it is a standard'. I thaink about it and then realized WWW is so amazing project. We can live more comfortable in this information technology because of WWW and we always use this project each time, each day. In this week, I miss many things(in my class) beacase of my insufficient eng skill but I'll try and study for 100% understanding.

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2nd Homework

2008.03.19 - 03.21

"Hypertext"

This week we learned about Hypertext.
Hypertext is a a coined word that consist of 'Hyper(is used to form adjectives that describe someone as having a lot or too much of a particular quality)', 'text(is any written material)'.
Hypertext is text which contains lnks to other texts. The term was coined by Ted Nelson around 1965 . HyperMedia is a term used for hypertext which is not constrained to be text: it can include graphics, video and sound , for example. Apparently Ted Nelson was the first to use this term too. For example, while reading a document about Mozart, you might click on the phrase Violin Concerto in A Major, which could display the written score or perhaps even invoke a recording of the concerto. Clicking on the name Mozart might cause various illustrations of Mozart to appear on the screen. The icons that you select to view associated objects are called Hypertext link or buttons. If I understood about Hypertext this example will be correct. I think Hypertext systems are particularly useful for organizing and browsing through large databases that consist of disparate types of information. I think Hypertext is a amazing technologies that human made and these technologies make us life more useful and abundant.

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1st Homework

2008.03.12 - 03.14

"Welcome to present"

At first class, We make a point to 'connect', 'seperate', 'embody'.
In digital media thchnologies connect or seperate people and they becomes media. And that thchnologies embody many special quality. For knowing about a general idea of 'connect' , 'seperate', we learn about car. A car connect here(place 1) and there(place2) and seperate inside & outside. Also we learn about a general idea of 'switches', 'connectors' that two building blocks of computers.

''As we may think"

Vannevar bush said logic can become enormously difficult, and it would undoubtedly be well to produce more assurance in its use. And the machines for higher analysis have usually been equation solvers. Ideas are beginning to appear for equation transformers, which will rearrange the relationship expressed by an equation in accordance with strict and rather advanced logic.

So he propose a design machine that has a feature like selection by association. That machine can pick the most important information usefully. He called this machine Memex. It is a simpler form of memory extender.


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