Chinese New Year

You are invited to

Celebrate Chinese New Year 4710

The Year of the Water Dragon

with

HICAP

on

Friday, January 27, 2012 at 5:00 p.m.

10 West 138th Street

R.S.V.P.: 347.603.8829

 

On January 6th marking the Twelth Day of Christmas, HICAP classes resumed.

After viewing the HICAP video, 'Breaking Barriers' created by the Internet Society on youtube, we discussed:

BANDWIDTH--The Currency of the Internet

• Bandwidth--digital signal processing measuring radio frequencies in Hz
• Wireless Broadband--provides instantaneous bandwidths greater than one MHz with a bit rate greater than 1.5 Mbit/s.

In a previous HICAP Session, we discussed QR Codes; how they work and we created a few for HICAP. We, also, discussed audio QR possibilities!

HICAP Students have covered to date:

• Bits


• Binary Code


• ASCII Conversion Table


• Scientific Notation


• Exponential Powers

HICAP Offers Free Internet & Computer Access

For many years, the Board of Directors' at the Chauncey Hooper Towers located at 10 West 138th Street in Harlem have offered computer and Internet access to anyone who required that service. Although there are ongoing classes weekly, if the need to use a computer to take care of business or just to look something or someone up, the computer lab is available to Senior Citizens and persons with assistive needs...all are welcome at HICAP!

Seniors and Technoloy

Senior Citizens come to HICAP-Harlem Internet Computer Access Program-not only to utilize a computer and access the Internet, they also build their technical and scientific vocabulary in our hands-on, stress-free environment.
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Computer Class for the 2011-2012 Session began October 7, 2011. Our discussion included:

• Computer memory



• Internet sends/receives data



• Cloud Computing



• USB



• Hertz



• Bytes



• RAM



• C: Drive

March

• Some time in the near future, we will be graced with the presence of Joly McFie of the Internet Society-NYC. He is coming to bless us in the form of a scanner for the students to utilize.

• The Internet at HICAP has remained accessible for all computers, including our desk top, since the introduction of the wireless modem.
  

• On March 15, 2011, Speech Recognition Software is loaded, so that HICAP Seniors can speak their commands and have them implemented. We will test the efficacy of the software and make our assesment.

• We have new, returning and an ongoing student population utilizing the HICAP lab, we applaud their efforts.

Recent Discussions Included:

Understanding bits
USB for expansion hub
RFID
Frequency and Amplitude
Extensions

Because HICAP students knowledge base has progressed; putting what has been garnered into practice is our current collective goal. Our class will be shooting video, uploading it to our website and youtube. This promises to be an exciting time for all.

Comments are welcome.