Essay - Computer Science MS Degree Application in 1999, Www.inventortim Berners-lee Wrote...

Computer Science MS Degree Application

***** 1999, WWW.inventorTim Berners-Lee wrote in his book, Weaving the Web:

I have a dream for the *****...Machines become capable of analyzing all the data on the Web - ***** content, links, and transactions between people and computers. A "Semantic Web," which should make this possible, has yet to emerge, but when it does, the day-*****-day mechanisms ***** trade, bureaucracy, and our daily lives will be handled by machines talking to machines, leaving humans to provide ***** inspiration and intuition.

***** is hard to believe that Berners-Lee said ***** just a mere eight years ago, and so much ***** changed since then. Surely even such an outstanding innovator could not have imagined that his ***** would materialize so quickly. *****s a result, ********** his quote states, "now it is up to the humans to provide the inspiration and intuition." It is great to k***** that I ***** the opportunity of being one of these individuals.

With my education and work experience thus far, I am on my way ***** making the Internet ***** full-time career. In December 2005 I graduated from (name ***** school) with a Bachelor of Science in Computer *****. This experience was everything ***** hoped it would be, since ***** more than confirmed ***** I had ***** ability ***** interest in this field. In order to move ahead, I am now applying to (name of school) as a c*****ndidate for the Master's in In*****mation Systems program.

After graduating high ***** and attending the university, I held the positions of Web Applications Developer and Internet Marketing Specialist. At (***** of company), I had the ***** to work ***** an experienced team as lead developer on Web-based training courses. My varied resp*****sibilities included helping end users acquire their knowledge needs, providing technical assist*****ce and evaluation of proposed plans, ***** assisting in the design and delivery of ***** Web infrastructure. In marketing, I saw the ***** from the flipside of the business perspective, as I maintained ***** website and listserv, monitored the in-house servers, resolved DNS issues and net*****ed printer problems, and operated the Active Director on the exchange server. ***** rounded out my understanding of the impact ***** *****ternet has ***** the entire organization. Most important, ***** gained hands-on experience with ***** intricacies of the WWW.andnetwork architecture. Now, as a web developer *****t (type ***** *****), I am using my varied talents and past experience in the areas of ma*****tenance of the employee intranet and company's Internet across several environments, which includes development, production and quality control of staging "live" websites.

***** have a kn*****ck for computer science/web design. In middle school, ***** uncle showed me how to upgrade ***** memory on my desk*****p computer. It ***** not l*****g **********e I was inst*****ing systems, detecting and resolving computer issues ***** replacing hard drives on laptops. My first course at (n*****e *****) c*****tinued ***** interest with projects using Perl, CGI and PHP. Later, I added Macromedia Flash for animation to my repertoire ***** then Photoshop