Research Paper
Topics are due Thursday Oct 22nd at the beginning of class.
Late topics will NOT be accepted.
Final Draft of Paper is due December 10th by the beginning of class. Late papers will NOT be accepted. The paper should be turned in as a hard copy, not electronic copy.
Select a computer industry related topic on which to write a research
paper. The topic should be a current issue. Your paper should cite
at least two sources from the Internet and be about 5 typed pages.
Sample topics ( You do not have to choose one of these. )
- The Year 2000 Problem
- Desk Top software applications
- Battle of the top selling operating systems: SCO Unixware, IBM AIX, HP-UX,
Windows NT, Sun Solaris
- Programming Languages presently being used
- Bill Gates in front of the Justice Department again
- UNIX vs. Windows NT
- Industry trends in Backing up Hard disks
- The Future of the PC
- Desktop to Host Storage Management
- The State of the World Wide Web
- Security Issues on the Web
- Electronic Commerce
- Virtual Reality software used in Industry
- 3D Animation software programs used in manufacturing and design
- Future and past trends of the cost and speed of RAM
- Directions of the major manufactures of CPU's