Welcome To Internet Computing

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Welcome To Internet Computing

• Instructor --Professor Charles Wood

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Why are you here?
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Why are you here?

• Myriad of technologies to learn about
• Better than a black box understanding
• Lots of DETAIL work(!)

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Name that player
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(Answers)

• Sergey Brin and
• Larry Page
• (Google)
• Steve
• Jobs
• (Apple
• and
• Pixar)
• Larry
• Ellison
• (Oracle)

Michael Dell (Dell)
Pierre Omidyar (eBay)
Linus Torvalds (Linux) Scott McNealy (Sun)
John Sculley (10 years at Apple)
Gordon Moore (Intel)
Lou Gerstner (IBM)
Bill (Master of the Universe)
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Pierre Omidyar

• eBay Founder
• Founder of several successful companies
• Developer for Claris (Apple computer)
• Computer Science Degree

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Gordo

• Founded INTEL in 1968
• Ever hear of Moores Law?
• Previous experience in semiconductors
• Degrees in Chemistry
• Needed a cheap silicon transistor
• Ph. D. in Applied Physics
• Similar to engineering

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Bill

• Harvard Business training- 4th year dropout
• Wrote a BASIC compiler for the MITS Altair
• First Microsoft Product 1975
• Bought QDos for 50K and repackaged it as MS-DOS
  to IBM

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Steve vs. John

• Apples First and Most Recent CEO
• Lost in a political struggle to John
• Wrote Breakout in 4 days for Atari
• Brought Apple back from the brink of death
• Programmer

• Under his 10-year reign, no truly new products
  were developed at Apple except the Newton
• Eventually let go
• Marketer

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Mike

• Only 1 year of college
• Built PCs in his Dorm room for resale
• To profitable to stay enrolled
• No formal training, but can tear apart a PC and
  put it back together

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Managing Internet Technology

• Its Hard!!!!!!! This is true about EC in life
  as well as in this class
• Its difficult to succeed
• You need technical skills
• You need managerial ability

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Now why you REALLY need to take this class
Guess who?
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Now why you REALLY need to take this class
Senator Paul Sarbanes
Representative Michael Oxley
A business nightmareA consultants dream
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