Annotated Bibliography

Brain, Marshall. "How Boolean Logic Works." HowStuffWorks. 01 April 2000. Web. 08 March 2013. The purpose of this article is to tell how Boolean Logic works. This article informs that Boolean Logic is the reason computers are able to perform brain like functions on an engineering like level. How Stuff Works is a very credible and it is run by Martial Brain who has a masters degree in electrical engineering. This article is also written by him. The site also contains pictures and videos to help enhance the readers understanding in Boolean Logic and it also has many links about related topics to further ones IT understanding. The site is unbiased and some articles might be understudied by some middle school students. If one was exploring computer functions and would like to find out exactly how computers relate to brains this article teaches the essentials for doing that.

Brain, Marshall. "How Hard Disks Work." HowStuffWorks. Web. 01 April 2000. 08 March 2013. The purpose of this article is to show the parts of a hard disk and to show how the certain parts function. It has detailed diagrams of the different parts of the hard disk as well as the history of hard disks. It has also come from the website How Stuff Works and it is written by Marshall Brain as well. The site also contains links to educate people on how to add multiple hard disks to different in computers. The links are more articles videos and other websites all to help the builder. The article is unbiased and can be understood by many middle school students. If a person wanted to know where a computer stores most of its data and how this article will teach that. Bonsor, Kevin, and Strickland, Jonathan. "How Quantum Computers Work." HowStuffWorks. 08 December 2000. Web. 28 March 2013. The point of this article is to tell people about a new type of technology breakthrough. It teaches the difference between quantum computing and regular computing. This article is from How Stuff Works and it is written by Jonathan Strickland who has a Bachelors degree in literature and Kevin Bonser who has a bachelor's degree in journalism and he is a freelance writer. Even though they don't have degrees in IT on can tell if their information is correct because their sources are listed and their source are very credible. Also Marshall Brain who does have a masters in electrical engineering checks the work in the technology department. This article also contains photos and videos to further ones understand along with a section to read similar article that usually help to understand the current article. The site is unbiased and can be understood by very few middle school students because a basic understanding of quantum physics is required to understand this article. Also a basic understanding of boolean logic is required . If one wanted to know how the

idea of a quantum computer works the person might want to study the ideas of parallelism and quantum states first.

Bonsor, Kevin. "How DNA Computers Will Work." How Stuff Works. 17 November 2000. Web. 28 March 2013 The article How DNA Computers WIll Work is an article informing people about an idea of using DNA logic gates to replace normal logic gates to create a biochip. This article is from How Stuff Works which is run by Marshall Brain who has a masters degree in electrical engineering. The author is Kevin Bonser who has a bachelor's degree in journalism. The article itself is unbiased and contains many links, photos, videos and lots more information section which usually clears up any questions had on the topic. If one wanted to learn about one of the way people are trying to make computers more efficient this article would teach about one of those routes. This article will be easy to understand by anyone with a solid concept of logic gates. Brain, Marshall. "How Electronic Gates Work." HowStuffWorks. 01 April 2000. Web. 28 March 2013. This article's purpose is to secure one's understanding about how logic gates are used to create functioning chips. It also gives step by step instructions on how to experiment with Boolean gates. The author of this article is Martial Brain who has a masters degree in electrical engineering. The site comes with videos as well as links and sites listed to help one understand what they are saying. The site is unbiased and can be understood by very few middle school students because so many concepts are integrated into one topic. If one was wanting to know how Boolean logic is used as well as step by step instructions on how to experiment with it this article is perfect. Stewart, Jon. "Global Data Storage Calculated at 295 Exabytes." BBC News. BBC, 02 Nov. 2011. Web. 13 Apr. 2013. The purpose of this article is to inform the world that the University of California has found out that the total amount of information in the whole world is 295 exabytes. To put that into perspective 1 megabyte of data is a small book. There are 1024 megabytes in a gigabyte and 1,000,000,000 in a petabyte. Last of all there are 1024 petabytes in an exabyte. The article is from the BBC news website and it is credible. In this article there is no bias. This article can be understood by anyone with a basic understanding of bits and bytes. Whitley, Lawrence. Boolean Logic/Quantum Computing. Personal Interview. 10 Jan. 2013. http://students.weebly.com/weebly/main.php I interview Lawrence Whitley, the head It manager at the Duke Alzheimers and Disease research center. During this interview he basically showed me that I had set my goals to high in the period of time allotted. He also pulled up diagrams and pictures of the inside of laptops to prove to me that the insides of a laptop are usually two different to pull apart to make a new computer with.