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The Small Scale Experimental Machine, or "Baby", was the first to contain memory which could store a program.

Sixty years ago the "modern computer" was born in a lab in Manchester. wow gold

Using just 128 bytes of memory, it successfully ran its first set of instructions - to determine the highest factor of a number - on 21 June 1948.

The room-sized computer's ability to carry out different tasks - without having to be rebuilt - has led some to describe it as the "first modern PC".
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"We congratulated each other and then went and had lunch in the canteen."

"We were extremely excited," Geoff Tootill said.

Mr Tootill, and three other surviving members of the Baby team, will be honoured by the University and the British Computer Society at a ceremony in Manchester.

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Number cruncher( "Baby")was the successor to machines such as the American ENIAC and the UK's Colossus.

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The success of the Blackberry has driven RIM's profits

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Canada-based RIM has come top of the magazine's latest annual guide to the 100 fastest-growing businesses.
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In second place was US chipmaker Sigma Designs, with Chinese internet business Sohu.com coming in third.

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The maker of the Blackberry mobile phone, Research in Motion (RIM), is the world's fastest-growing company, according to business magazine Fortune.

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The DNA strand in trees is 60-100 times longer than a human one

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One would not usually associate DNA tests with forests but in Singapore such a test has been developed for trees.

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The aim is to help stamp out illegal logging, by proving where wooden furniture has come from.


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Illegal logging first drew global attention in 1965, when Brazil implemented its first law against the crime.

Students battle for Bafta award(computer games design.)

Shrunk sees the players reduced to the size of a salt shaker

Abertay University students will be battling it out to pick up a prestigious

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Its teams took all three finalist spots at a computer games design

competition.

The winners of the Bafta Ones to Watch category are guaranteed to come from

the university in Dundee.


They beat groups from the UK, China, India, Norway and Canada to be named the

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Gentlemen of Fortune won for their game Quick as Thieves, where the player

has to steal items from a museum.

The Butterflyers created a game called Shrunk!, which sees the player reduced

to the size of a salt shaker as they try to capture a device which shrinks

the world around them.


The judging panel was made up of top names in the computer gaming industry

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Abertay's Principal Bernard King added: "Dare to be Digital is recognised as

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The success of the Blackberry has driven RIM's profits

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Canada-based RIM has come top of the magazine's latest annual guide to the 100 fastest-growing businesses.

In second place was US chipmaker Sigma Designs, with Chinese internet business Sohu.com coming in third. wow account

Fortune rates a firm's growth on a combination of its profits, turnover and investment return over three years. wow powerleveling

The maker of the Blackberry mobile phone, Research in Motion (RIM), is the world's fastest-growing company, according to business magazine Fortune.