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COIT 20246 ICT Services Management Assignment

   

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COIT 20246 ASSIGNMENT SUBMISSIONDue date:Thursday Week 11 (2PM AEST)Part:Written AssessmentWeighting:30% of total assessment. Submission:Electronic (see course website for details)InstructionsIt will be necessary to use literature/online resources to complete this assignment, please ensure you cite and reference any such materials using the Harvard format. DO NOT copy content directly from either the text or Internet resources: this assignment is to be in your own words. You will lose marks if you do not use your own words!Please complete your assignment using this submission template file, inserting your responses where indicated.DO NOT delete the marking criteria page – changes are permitted to the formatting of other pages including the headers and footers.Please fill in the following details:Student NameStudent Number

TasksThere are ten (10) tasks, one for each week: the tasks are detailed below. There is a table to complete for each task. Please fill in the information required. Note: Each resource summary should be around 200-300 words.Week 1The text discusses the elements of modern computing architecture however is largely silent on the individuals who played a role in its development. Find and summarise a resource that describes ONE such individual. The individual should have had a significant influence on the development of computers and/or components of modern computing architecture.Title and Reference:Copeland BJ, (Ed.), 2005, Alan Turing's Automatic Computing Engine, OUP, pp. 369-454.(https://global.oup.com/academic/product/alan-turings-automatic-computing-engine-9780198565932?cc=us&lang=en&)Hennessy, JL & Patterson D, 2006, Computer Architecture: A Quantitative Approach(Fourth ed.). Morgan Kaufmann.Summary:Computer architecture is a complex system that enables the computer to work in an organized manner.Modern computer architecture can be traced to some individuals that contributed to the development ofcomputer architecture. One such individual as presented in Alan Turing's Automatic Computing EnginewasCharles Babbage (Copeland 2005, pp. 369-454). History of modern computer architecture isderived from this individual. Charles Babbage played an important role in the development ofcomputer being a mathematician from his background. Charles Babbage was a professor ofmathematics at the Cambridge University who invented the first mechanical computer. CharlesBabbage together with Ada Lovelace invented an analytical engine that forms the basis of developinganother computer system that alters evolved to become the modern computer system. In addition, hiswork consisted of a simple computer system with memory and data separated with the operation beinginstruction-based, the control unit was able to make conditional jumps, and the computer had a separateI/O unit. The machine marked the transition from arithmetic to computation that is characteristic of themodern computer. This computer machine had simple architecture as compared to the moderncomputer system that currently has very advanced architecture. Moreover, the analytical machine as a

computer was programmed using punched cards compared to the current modern computer that has adifferent computer program. Charles Babbage work is also considered to be the foundation of thedevelopment of nanotechnology due to its mechanical nature and continuous refining show that someelements are contained in his Babbage's Last Laugh paper. Nevertheless, modern computer architectureis purely derived from the early work of Charles Babbage a gives the whole picture used in the currentcomputer development (Hennessy& Patterson 2006). Week 2The text discusses the components and activities of operating systems however is largely silent on the individuals who played a role in their development. Find and summarise a resource that describes ONEsuch individual. The individual should have had a significant influence on the writing or development of operating systems.Title and Reference:Allan, R A, 2001, A History of the Personal Computer. Allan Publishing.https://archive.org/details/A_History_of_the_Personal_ComputerKroenke, D, 2015, MIS Essentials (Fourth ed.). Boston: Pearson. p.10Summary:Operating system computer software refers to a program that coordinates or managescomputer resources and hardware giving tools that applications use to operate. Thisimplies that computer applications are run by an operating system of a computer. Theonly part that remained unexplored is the developers of the operating system. Oneindividual who contributed to the operating system development is Bill Gates whogreatly contributed to the development of the first operating system (Allan2001). BillGates is a co-founder of Microsoft Corporation has played an important role in themodern computer operating system though initially developed by Tim Paterson;Microsoft purchased QDOS for $50,000 in 1980. This gave the owner of Microsoftright to ownership of the initial operating system thereby developing it to a new level.Bill Gates remains chief software architect within the Microsoft Corporation after

becoming a part-time participant at the company. Works of Bill Gates date back 1975when he was working interpreter platform winning the interest of MicroInstrumentation and Telemetry Systems (MITS) which was the inventor ofmicrocomputers. Paul Allen started working with MITShaveand this made Bill Gatesform a partnership with Allen a partnership called Micro-soft hence conception ofMicrosoft. Microsoft started developing software for different systems since 1976 asit becomes independent from MITS. Gates become the manager of the business andwrote computer codes for software (Kroenke2015,p.10).

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