Jian Huang at University of Tennessee; CS361 Operating System and Systems Programming

Peter Pham - ComputerWorld 1979

The Federal Computer Systems Protection act was for illegal access to computer systems , this bill addresses noncriminal but unauthorized access.
Example used “Some persons have said the trespass and browsing control section of the computer bill is too broad, that it would make it a federal offense for harmless activities at the computer console, such as making a snoopy calendar or filing away and tabulating bowling leagues scores and standings, but the same type of browsing which creates a snoopy calendar could facilitate a major fraud or a serious act of intentional destruction.”
Just wanted to protect Data processing facilities and programs against fraud, intentional destruction, and unauthorized access.

Update on how there have five states that has pass computer crime laws and Michigan was the third state to do so in the year 1979.
Colorado and Rhode Island were the other two.
Main purpose of the law was for prohibiting access to computers, computer systems, and networks for certain fraudulent purposes.

Denmark, France, and Norway implemented privacy laws.
Constitutional rights to information privacy.
The proposed introduction of personal identification numbers.
The country which has exercised the most studied judgment as to the justification for domestic data protection was the United Kingdom.

The cause was an error in a computer formula that has been used for seven years to design cooling systems in nuclear reactors.
Just interesting how far computers have gotten to be an integral part of society and the speed of the developments.

The heart of the device is a piezoelectric accelerometer, which measures acceleration caused by patient movement.
References to Dick Tracy’s Two way wrist TV
The movement is recorded on to a pair of intel 5101 CMOS random access memory (RAM) chips. The chips stored 256 words of information, with one 8 bit word for each time period counted out by a crystal oscillator.
Used to measure how much movement took place. Like a pedometer, but can tell when the person moved.

Another use of computers helping society.
Goal is to create a Superbulls that can sire supercows that give more milk.
Cow index is rating program that was run on an IBM 370/168 and traces the ancestry of the cows.
Farmers would consult the cow index when making purchases of other cows.