What I expect

For my final project in my class Living and Working in the Virtual World, I have chosen to choose between virtual reality and artificial intelligence.   To begin, what is artificial intelligence and virtual reality?   In my idea, artificial intelligence is the idea of robotics having their own mind, their, own intelligence, and can think on their own and choose their own actions.   For me, virtual reality is a reality you can find digitally, a digital device that actually makes your mind believe you are in a completely different location, and situation at a certain time, when in reality you are right there in your living room!   For this final project I am going to choose artificial intelligence, and I want to discuss some pros and cons of artificial intelligence.   If we were able to create artificial intelligence, I feel like our lives could become so much easier, or so much harder.   For starters, if we had artificial intelligence could you imagine the possibilities? We could no

The dot com to dot bomb bust.   This is the topic I will be discussing in my amazing blog before Thanks Giving this year.   But before I start might as well, happy Thanks Giving to all that read this.   This lesson that we learned was taught by our very own Andrew Fry, and it was taught very well, even had toy dinosaurs!   To differ Andrew from all the other blogs we have had that pertain to guest speakers, Andrew honestly kept me interested more than any other speakers.   I do not know if that is because he is an actual teacher, or that he is just funny, however he kept me interested throughout the lesson.   We discussed how there are five stages to creating a company stated by Andrew, and these five stages are the innocent beginning, the boom, insanity, the bust, and the crawl back to sanity.   The way he explained it was at first you are beginning and kind of uneasy because you are fresh to the start, then it takes off, then the insanity hits where it really is taking off and yo

To begin this blog about the visit from our guest speaker Shad Rack, I would like to state that I am thankful that I showed up to this class early so I could know what to do to obtain the extra credit, and that is why my title for my blog is, “It’s not just about being a programmer.”   Shad was about six feet tall, and looked to be middle aged man that seemed successful.   I would say that he looked successful just in the way he stood tall, wore business casual clothing, and spoke clearly and precisely.   Shad talked a lot about cloud computing at first and described how we are going back to using that as a main system again.   Basically you can reach all your data from one mainframe, instead of having multiple mainframes.   Excuse if this sounds wrong, I paraphrased Shad as much as possible on the definition of cloud computing.   He created four companies I believe, however he only discussed Airlift and Infoblox.   I thought that his website airlift was pretty interesting for a co

The Startup.com movie gave me many insights about the internet boom and all the startups.   This particular movie had to deal with three friends that came up with an idea to create a website that allowed you pay federal fees online without having to leave your house, unless you didn’t have internet at home.   This movie basically had three steps to it, the struggling to come up with a website and the name, and to get funding, then to success with millions of dollars, then to absolute failure.   The three founders were Tom, and Kaleil Izuz Tuzman.   The first founder I believed to be very smart, he invested thousands of dollars, then left early with about seven hundred thousand dollars. This may seem like he ripped his buddies off, but it was smart considering he still had another job and wasn’t fully invested into the website, and he was the only one who ended up making profit from the startup. Tom seemed nice at first, but at second glance, he really didn’t care. He openly stated