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• Phishing


  The attempt to acquire sensitive information such as usernames, passwords, and credit card details for malicious reasons, by masquerading as a trustworthy entity in an electronic communication
• Software piracy


  The illegal copying, distribution, or use of software
• Plagiarism


  The stealing of someone else's thoughts, ideas, expressions or work and the representation of them as one's own original work
• Software license


  A legal instrument governing the use or redistribution of software
• Categories of software under copyright law

  • Proprietary software
  • Free and open source software (FOSS)
• Proprietary software


  Typically does not license rights and therefore keeps the source code hidden (closed source)
• FOSS software licenses


  Bundle the modifiable source code with the software (open-source) and grant the licensee specific rights to use, edit or redistribution of software
• Unlicensed software


  Outside the copyright protection is either public software or software which is non-distributed, non-licensed and handled as internal resource of an organization
• What is Phishing?


  The attempt to acquire sensitive information such as usernames, passwords, and credit card details for malicious reasons, by masquerading as a trustworthy entity in an electronic communication.
• Abacus


  First calculating device in the world used by Chinese around 5000 BC
• Pascaline


  Introduced by Blaise Pascal in 1642, could add and subtract two numbers
• Stepped Reckoner


  Invented by German scientist Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz in 1694, carried out add, subtract, multiply and divide operations
• Difference engine


  First mechanical computer developed by Charles Babbage in 1880
• Charles Babbage


  Presented the concept of Input, Process and Output that is used in modern computers, for the first time, considered as the "Father of the computer"
• Electronic valve (vacuum tube)


  Invented by Forest in 1906
• Automatic sequence controller (Mark 1)

  First automatic computer invented by Professor Howard Aiken in 1939
• 1st Generation Computers (1940-1956)


  Used vacuum tubes as the basic component
• ENIAC (Electronic Numerical Integrator and Calculator)


  First electronic digital computer designed by John Mauchly and J. Presper Eckert in 1946
• EDSAC (Electronic Delay Storage Automatic Calculator)


  First full size stored program computer developed by Maurice Wilkes in 1947, built according to the von Neumann machine principles
• EDVAC (Electronic Discrete Variable Automatic Computer)


  First digital computer that could store program, built in 1948