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PowerPoint Project:
Computer Industry PowerPoint

Problem

You will be giving a PowerPoint presentation on a famous figure, company, or computer from the computer industry. You should follow the rules for creating a PowerPoint presentation that you can find by reading the lesson associated with this project. Your choices are listed below, but you cannot choose a subject that has been picked by another student so have a few backup choices.

Instructions

  1. The presentation must be at least 5 minutes long, but should not be longer than 10 minutes.
  2. The slideshow should be at least 10 slides long.
  3. A title slide should introduce your topic, and include your name.
  4. There should be an image on every slide.
  5. Text should only be short sentences or phrases, and should not be overly-long paragraphs. The slides do NOT all have to have text on them.
  6. Every slide should have a transition, but do not use more than 2 or 3 different transitions.
  7. Every slide should have a background color, background image, or background fill effect. Try to keep the background fairly consistent throughout the slideshow and make sure the text is legible.
  8. Follow the lesson that goes along with this project when creating your slideshow and when giving your presentation.
  9. You need to cite your sources at the end of the slide using MLA Style. Wikipedia is not a valid source, although you may use it as a starting point.
  10. Make sure your name is in the title of the PowerPoint and turn it in to Mr. Miller's Neighborhood.

Extra Credit

Design a flyer about your topic detailing some of the interesting/important details. You can use a layout program such as Adobe InDesign, Adobe Illustrator, or Microsoft Publisher for this. Good flyers will be placed in the room.

Presentation Choices

  • Ada Byron-Lovelace (First programmer)
  • Alan Turing (Proposed the Turing Test that helped spark the debate on artificial intelligence)
  • Bill Gates (Founder of Microsoft)
  • Blaise Pascal (Inventor of the Pascaline adding machine)
  • Charles Babbage (Designed the first plans for a computer)
  • Ed Roberts (Designed the Altair)
  • Gottfried Leibniz (Inventor of Step Reckoner that could add, subtract, multiply, and divide)
  • Grace Hopper (Programmed for the Mark I and coined the term "debugging")
  • Herman Hollerith (Invented machine for U.S. census and started company that became IBM)
  • Larry Page and Sergey Brin (Founders of Google)
  • Linus Torvalds (Developed the Linux kernel)
  • Mark Zuckerberg (Founder of Facebook)
  • Ray Ozzie (Created Lotus Notes and is former Chief Software Architect of Microsoft)
  • Steve Chen, Jawed Karim, and Chad Hurley (Founders of YouTube)
  • Steve Jobs (CEO of Apple)
  • Steve Wozniak (Inventor of the Apple Computer)
  • Tim Berners-Lee (Posited the first standards for the internet and invented the web browser)
  • Altair 8800 (First personal computer)
  • Apple II (First commercially-successful personal computer)
  • ENIAC (First general-purpose computer)
  • IBM PC (Included Microsoft's DOS operating system)
  • ILLIAC (Series of supercomputers at the University of Illinois)
  • Macintosh (Introduced GUI to the mass market)
  • Mark I (The first working computer)
  • PLATO (Established online concepts such as forums, email, chat rooms, instant message, and online gaming)
  • Apple (Macintosh, iPad, iPod, iPhone)
  • IBM (First computer company)
  • Google (Backlink search engine technology)
  • Microsoft (Windows, Office, Xbox)
  • Xerox PARC (Developed laser printing, the GUI, and Ethernet)
  • Other (Clear with Mr. Miller first)