Columbia College - Computer and Communications Technology

08/27/2018

On behalf of all faculty and staff from CCT, we welcome all Columbia students to the start of a new semester and a new academic year.

05/31/2018

TBT: Honoring Edsger W. Dijkstra

(11 May 1930 – 6 August 2002) was a Dutch systems scientist, programmer, software engineer, science essayist, and early pioneer in computing science. Dijkstra is known for his algorithm for finding the shortest paths between nodes in a graph. He also coined the phrase "structured programming". His ideas about structured programming helped lay the foundations for the birth and development of the professional discipline of software engineering, enabling programmers to organize and manage increasingly complex software projects. Structured programming is the basis for all that has been done since in programming methodology, including object-oriented programming.

05/30/2018

Wacky Wednesday: Selfie Toaster

Any Human Face on Toast or Your Bread Back What you get: One toaster made in China with special rails and mechanisms that hold your bread against the interchangeable stainless steel stencils fabricated here in Vermont. For each custom image you order, you get two identical stainless steel stencils.....

05/29/2018

Tech Tuesday: Facebook Ban

Papua New Guinea aims to crack down on fake profiles and may make its own rival social network.

05/25/2018

Future Friday: 4D Printing

What is 4D Printing technology, which are its potential applications, how is it different than 3D Printing

05/24/2018

TBT: First Telegraph Sent


May 24, 1844

Samuel Morse sends the first telegraphic message over a line from Washington, D.C. to Baltimore. The message, “What hath God wrought!” was transmitted to his partner, Alfred Vail, who retransmitted the same message back to Morse. This formally opened America’s first telegraph line, launching America’s first form of instant communication in history. The biblical text was selected by Annie Ellsworth, the teenage daughter of the U.S. Commissioner of Patents.
(Credit: Marcel Brown, www.thisdayintechhistory.com)

05/22/2018

Tech Tuesday: Adults Need This Reminder Too

Your Google Home smart speaker can even ask for the magic word.

05/21/2018

Motivational Monday

05/18/2018

Future Friday: Google Assistant

In an amazing demo at Google I/0, Google's Assistant can actually ring up a salon or a restaurant to make an appointment for you. You don't have to call your...

05/17/2018

TBT: First Web Server


May 17, 1991

The first server “web server” in history is set up by Tim Berners-Lee on a NeXTcube at CERN, the European Particle Physics Laboratory in Geneva, Switzerland. The launch of this first server is considered the public release of the World Wide Web.
(Credit: Marcel Brown, www.thisdayintechhistory.com)

05/16/2018

Wacky Wednesday: New Compact Lightweight E-bike

It takes five steps to fold up Smacircle, a crowdfunded electric bike from China, that you can ride to work then pack up into your backpack. The bike is on d...

05/15/2018

Tech Tuesday: Secure Email, Not So Secure

The vulnerability affects PGP - a widely used means of encrypting emails.