A computer is a machine for manipulating data according to a list of instructions. Computers take numerous physical forms. Early electronic computers were the size of a large room, consuming as much power as several hundred modern personal computers. Today, computers can be made small enough to fit into a wrist watch and be powered from a watch battery. Society has come to recognize personal computers and their portable equivalent, the laptop computer, as icons of the information age; they are w ...
Some people are surprised to learn that Bill Gates dropped out of Harvard at age 20. How could the founder of Microsoft ? the behemoth computer technology corporation ? and the third richest person on earth accomplish so much without a college ... ...