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Brandon Wilson WBL Workshop 2 In this workshop, we went over how to write our resumes. We went over resume tips, sample resumes for high school students, sample resume templates, cover letter template and verb list for for cover letters. We also had a guest speaker from Grant Associates, her name was Estefany Carmona. From the beginning of class we were asked to list our skills, both our IT skills and soft skills, on a piece of loose-leaf. After that some of us presented our level of skill in what we had written whether it was basic to advanced. We were then permitted to go on the computers to pull up our resumes if we had worked on it, or to start working on one. I had one from the start that I have been working slowly on so I thought it would be great to get some feedback on it to see what I would need to include or exclude. I got some feedback on the style of my resume and how it shouldn't be too long or take up too much space. For someone who doesn't have a job yet or an...

Brandon Wilson MP2 Current Events 3 10/29/18     This article was about Livermore's powerful new supercomputer, Sierra. It can perform 125 quadrillion caculations per second! It has incredible memory, with enough storage to gold every written work of humanity, in all languages, twice. It was created with the collaboration between Livermore, Oak Ridge and Argonne. There were many problems when making it, but the major one was money. This was because the surging cost of memory, tied to the global demand for smart phones. Sierra was designed to support the nation's three nuclear security laboratories: Lawrence Livermore, Sandia National Laboratories, and Los Alamos National Laboratory. Supercomputers like this could "aid in science, medicine, energy and climate change." In addition, "its simulations allow scientists to pursue research in genetics, cell structure and atmospheric fluctuations that previously impractical or impossible." In my opinion, th...

Brandon Wilson Flash Talk - DNS Vulnerability and/or Hacks October 23, 2018     Good morning everyone! Today I am going to explain the different hacks and vulnerabilities of domain name systems and some counters to them. First off, what is a DNS? A domain name system is the service that translates URL to IP addresses. That is the way you type in google.com to get to the google search engine we all know and love. However this DNS system's security isn't the same for every website.     A method of hacking in the DNS is called DNS hijacking. This allows hackers to manipulate a website's DNS records which could take a user to another website instead of the website they are trying to get to. Think of it as a redirection, instead of going to google.com one day, when you type in the URL for google, you would go to a completely different site. That is only an example, I doubt google would get hacked at this point in time. Back to DNS hijacking, hackers can take you to ...

Brandon Wilson MP2 Current Events #2 10/22/18     This article was about the development of quantum computers and the progress in doing so. Currently there is development within the field but it lacks researchers and scientists. One of the reasons is because of the immigration problems created by Trump which limits the scientists that can help work on it while being in the US. The United States had always been on top of the most recent technology and isn't willing to fall behind other countries and continents. Within the years 2019 to 2023, there will be an act passed to donate lots of money to help research within quantum computing. Also by then there will be many more researchers and scientists in these fields. Also, normal computers of today will be looked as toys compared to the quantum computers to be built.      In my opinion, this research will help us a lot. To live up to being one of the great powers of the world, we should have technology ahead...

Brandon Wilson MP2 CE#1 October 15, 2018 Uber-funded research project pushes new ways to measure safety of driver-less cars 1) The data represents the development of driver-less cars that are more safe. There are many things that needed to be in consideration when working with this kind of technology. Some of these are brought up in the article and states," How much space does the driver-less car leave between itself and cars to the front and sides? How much more cautious does it become when its sensors are obscured or sightlines are bad? How often does it jerk out of the way of another car or slam on the brakes, either because of its own shortcomings or the poor driving of others nearby?" 2) Some trends within the data include the research being launched after an accident with a driver-less Uber struck and killed a pedestrian in Temple, Ariz, in March. This accident "heightened public concerns about the trustworthiness of the technology and the speed with...

Brandon Wilson Project #1 October 12, 2018 For this project, it required me to make a webpage displaying my 3 favorite movies, with images to display the movie,  links to travel around the page, and content relating to the movies. First off my folder layout was organized. I inserted a new HTML file named index.html within my "P1" folder. This would open up automatically if the P1 folder were to open. This was the homepage. Then we had to make 3 other web pages that would each represent one movie. I named each web page based on the movie it was on. Also, most of the code was copy and pasted like the code for the background image, menu bar, and banner at the top of the page. Oh to make that menu bar, I made a table with hyperlinks that take you to the corresponding page. Each page had it's own image for the corresponding movie and also a description with it along with why it is one of my favorite movies. The banner for the top of the page I made in photoshop. A we...

Brandon Wilson Digital Design  October 10th, 2018     Within this lab we were to duplicate all of our previous labs and then paste them into a separate folder named "Lab 7". That happens to be this lab. We were to make buttons, images with hyperlinks that go to our previous labs (1-6) when clicked on. It also included our banner and nameplate displayed in lab 6. So in order to do this, we first made an html file that was named index.html, which is a name that will open the html upon the folder being opened. In my index.html file I included 2 headings, one with the class name and one with my name. Then I inserted my banner in the head using an <img> tag and my nameplate in the body using an <img> tag. Lastly I make a custom image for each lab # and then used it as a hyperlink (<a> tag) that directs the user to that specific lab using a relative pathway. There was a total of 6 labs that were displayed. I also changed the background to a shade of re...

Brandon Wilson Digital Design October 10, 2018     In this lab we were to make both a nameplate and a banner using photoshop and then displaying them within our webpage. As a bonus, I also included a description of what I did within the document itself and a picture of my awesome self using an edgy pose with a katana. The nameplate and banner were both made using photoshop as I just said. However to display them in the page I called them using <img> tags and then making a relative path to where they were which was in a folder called "img" and then calling the file itself. For the banner, I put the image tag within the head for it to be displayed at the top of the page. As for the nameplate I put it at the very end of the body. Not to mention, I added a background of a dark red because it looks cool. An image of myself is on the left of the page or "floated" to the left as the text stays to the right of it.     A web designer would need to know how t...

Brandon Wilson Lab #5 Reflection October 9th, 2018    This lab required much more code then any of our previous labs. We were to make a table with 2 rows and 16 columns, and fill it with information based on our favorite foods, favorite movies, favorite and least favorite school subjects, favorite music genres and a grocery shopping list. First thing I did was create my usual headings. It consisted of using an <h1> tag through <h4> to display my name, class name, lab number and name, and the date. So next I made a table using the <table> tag. I started the first row using a <tr> tag and then started adding in the headings. I used 16 of these <tr> tags and added the heading corresponding to the information need (favorite foods, favorite movies, favorite and least favorite school subjects, favorite movie genres and a grocery shopping list). Next I made a second row that I used for all of the information based on the topics. I put my favorit...

            This article is was about how VR technology (virtual reality) can lead to more benefits with exercising then normal exercising. They ran tests with people who had the VR headset on and didn't have the VR headset on, to see the results of what happens when they lifted weights. They did the same exercise and found out that there was "a clear reduction in perception of pain and effort when using VR technology." In that same test, the VR people had been reported to have 10% less pain intensity then the people without the VR headset. The VR headset also allows for a person to extend their time in sustaining an activity. Exercising with VR was also effective in reducing perceived pain and that the private body consciousnesses did not lessen this effect.      Reading this article made me remember that most Americans are overweight and don't exercise. Actually in general many people are not active and this isn't a good thing. This ...

Brandon Wilson 10/2/18 Digital Design The layers of protocols used in network communication is an example of abstraction. Can you give other examples of abstraction in everyday life? When you browse to a web page, maybe with some animated advertisements embedded on it, describe in detail what happens behind the scenes to display that page on your browser. Another example of abstraction in everyday life would be in the way we study for big exams. Say for example you need to study for a US History and Government regions. It would be too much work to study EVERYTHING related to US History. Instead, teachers make it easy and only teach what they know will be on the test and things that would pop up. To generalize what I mean. an abstraction would just be taking something and making it less complex, so in this example, what you would have to study in school is an example of abstraction. The page that is displayed on my browser, in particular with animated advertisements, are the resul...

This article was about the new innovation of using " the interaction of photons and acoustic waves to enable an increase in signal capacity and therefore speed ". In other words the scientists at the University of Sydney Nano Institute have figured out how to use the acoustic noises in chips in receivers of information in fibre-optic networks. The use of this chip "removes the need for complicated laser oscillators and complex digital signal processing." This research is little in complexity and will have a huge benefit in a wide range of local and access systems.  Well the first things that caught my eye when reading this article was the fact the chip would reduce latency or "lag" in the gaming community. Since I am a gamer, I would know that lag is the biggest enemy to a gamer in all games, and causes them to glitch in a game or be able to do things they shouldn't be able to do. Having this chip being developed would be beneficial to even me and a...