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Module 9

Welcome to Module 9! This week we will wrap up Chapter 5: Input and Output devices.
What's happening this week-
Finish reading Chapter 5 in your textbook. You will be quizzed over the material this week, it will open Thursday afternoon. You will have until Sunday at midnight to take the quiz and it will have 20 questions.
Participate in the Discussion Board; I will post the question on Tuesday.
View the lecture. It will be recorded Tuesday morning, I will send you an email when it is ready for you to view.
This week's links to review-
One student described the "Microsoft Surface" computer in her dream computer assignment. I had never heard of it, but it seems very cool. It looks like a tabletop Pac-Man game using an ancestor of the iPhone's interface-
http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9021839

Researchers at Harvard have created a PC that the user wears around his or her neck, projecting information on to any surface. The computer is controlled using bands worn on the fingers. A little far fetched you say?  Watch "Future shock: The PC of 2019" on the bottom of this page:
http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=334799

And ASU is getting positive press for leading the way in the development of E-Paper-
http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/25/asus-touch-screen-epaper-display-evokes-the-future-from-the-pas/