As I'm preparing some of my first lectures for 2223, I'm struck with one big underlying theme: there's no escaping computers in today's world. For example, just today, I drove to work in a car with embedded computers (as most all cars today have), I've texted back and forth with my cell phone, made calls on my IP phone, sent and received e-mails, visited web sites, etc. Later, I'll go to the gym where they'll use a bar code to scan me in and I may stop by get a smoothie beforehand, where they'll use a computerized cash register to take my money. If I pay with a card, they'll use an information system to take my credit card information and process that payment.

So, computers are all around us and are here to stay. This is why being computer literate is vital in the workplace and in our everyday lives. It's my job to help college students become computer literate and acquire the necessary computer knowledge and skills that they'll need in their time here at ECU and in their careers.

Just think of how different today would have been so far without computers...

-JRO