As Christmas approaches, amidst sore heads, panic buying for our partners and Brexit being all over the news, we now have to remember more passwords, to avoid our well earned money being syphoned out of our accounts through the internet. The list below, whilst not exhaustive, gives you a good start at protecting yourself against…
Steve Jobs – 1955 Steve Jobs born in 1955 was one the co-founders of Apple. Apple is a technology company founded in 1976, now ranked the largest technology company in the world. Steve Jobs first taste of the industry was at HP where at 13 years old did a summer internship at the HP factory….
Tommy Flowers – 1944 Tommy Flowers, born in 1905 had a passion for machines and as a result studied an apprenticeship in mechanical engineering. Later he received his electrical engineering degree and began work at the British Post Office. In 1941, Flowers began work with Alan Turing’s machine at Bletchley Park. From this began design…
One click is all they need. Are you going to get caught out in the lead up to Christmas? In the lead up to Christmas, we inevitably become busier, fitting Christmas shopping in and around our day to day work (or instead of work!). Things get missed, slip through the net and this is what…
Hewlett & Packard – 1939 William Hewlett, born 1913 and Dave Packard, born 1912 founded ‘HP’ Hewlett Packard Enterprise in 1939. They invented the oscillator. A machine that could equally test the quality of sound equipment. Soon after, Walt Disney bought 8 oscillators. HP released an invention they are best known for today which, although…
Alan Turing – 1936 Alan Turing born 1912. Turing was educated at both Cambridge and Princeton which led him to write multiple papers on computer science. He invented the concept of the problem-solving machine that could execute simple sums, find square roots and solve sudoku puzzles. He later also designed his first concept of ‘Artificial…
William Barton Rogers – 1861/1865 William Barton Rogers born in 1804. As early as the 1840s he had wanted to create an educational environment to teach a high-level education of technology. Finally, in 1861 he founded Massachusetts Institute of Technology, better known as MIT and in 1865 it was open to students. Today, MIT hosts…
Charles Babbage & Ada Lovelace – 1837 Ada Lovelace born in 1815, studied mathematics and science in detail as wished by her mother so that she would avoid her father, Lord Byron’s passion and insanity for poetry. In 1843, while reading ‘Sketch of an Analytical Engine’ by Luigi Menabrea, she added notes, almost 2 ½…
The man who first designed the concept was a man called Alan Kay who worked for Xeroc PARC, an American research and development company. Our laptops have evolved from bulky but small LCD screen computers, floppy disk slots and a simple keyboards with only letters and numbers, to our flat screen, touchscreen, foldable and detachable…
What is CVS? Computer Vision Syndrome is the straining of the eyes whilst working for long periods of time at a computer screen. 50-90% of people who work on computers show symptoms of CVS. This can cause discomfort and fatigue. Things that may impact this are: your seat positions Your screen brightness Screen angle The…