Computer Science, Gordon Moore

What is Computer Science?
"Computer Science is the systematic study of the feasibility, structure, expression, and mechanization of the methodical processes (or algorithms) that underlie the acquisition, representation, processing, storage, communication of, and access to information, whether such information is encoded in bits and bytes in a computer memory or transcribed in genes and protein structures in a human cell." - http://www.cs.bu.edu/AboutCS/WhatIsCS.pdf
Wow, that definition is quite heavy, but I think it sums it up very nicely and it is easy to read. The definition is straight forward and is easy to understand. Examples of material things that are "computer science," include...
1) ipod
2) phone
3) television
4) computer/laptop
5) GPS
6) xbox console
Computer Science materials are all around you. If you reach into your pocket you will find your phone, if you open your backpack you will find a laptop, if you open your gym bag you will find an ipod. Computer Science is very important and our world will become more computerized in the future.

Gordon Moore is a significant figure in the fouding of Moore's Law. "Moore's law describes a long-term trend in the history of computing hardware whereby the number of transistors that can be placed inexpensively on an integrated circuit doubles approximately every two years." This law proves that there are increasing amounts of
1) processing speed
2) capacity of memory
3) size of pixels
with each increasing year. Lastly, Gordon Moore is an important figure because he helped discover the fact that the number of transistors will double every 2-3 years. - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moore's_law

The movie shown in class was really interesting to watch because it showed how Computer Science has changed over years and proved the point that technology and computers were very important in our past, are in our present life, and will be in the future.