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INFORMATION AGE Flashcards

1
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Sumerian writing

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3000 BC

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Egyptian hieroglyphics

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2900 BC

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Tortoise shell and oracle bone writing

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1300 BC

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4
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Papyrus roll

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500 BC

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5
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Parchment codex

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100 AD

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Johannes Gutenberg’s printing press

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1455

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Invention of Telegraph in Great Britain and US

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1837

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Eniac Computer

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1946

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Apple Macintosh computer

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1984

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10
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Separation of AI from Informationa Science

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Mid 1980’s

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is a system of writing first developed by the ancient Sumerians of Mesopotamia 3500 BCE (Mark, 2022).

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Cuneiform

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-One of the writing systems used by ancient Egyptians to represent their language (Scoville, 2015).

-Its pictorial elegance, Herodotus and other important.

-Greeks believed that Egyptian Hieroglyphs were something sacred referred as “holy writing”.

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Egyptian hieroglyphics

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(also known as Dragon’s Bones) were the shoulder blades of oxen or plastrons of turtles (the flat, underside of the turtle’s shell) which were used in the Shang Dynasty of China (c. 1600 1046 BCE) for divination (Mark, 2016).

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Oracle Bones

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-papyrus produced in Egypt was used for many purposes, but none more important than its function as a writing material.

-made from papyrus plant

-Ten to twenty sheets would be glued together to form a long sheet and rolled into a scroll, often

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Papyrus Roll

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is essentially an ancient book, consisting of one or more quires of sheets of papyrus or parchment folded together to form a group of leaves, or pages.

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Codex

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16
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was built around the traditional screw press, a precursor to today’s drill press, with an added matrix on which individually-cast letters and symbols could be arranged to form the desired text.

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Johannes Gutenberg’s Printing Press

17
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Developed in the 1830s and 1840s by Samuel Morse and
other inventors, the __________ revolutionized long distance communication. It worked by transmitting electrical signals over a wire laid between stations

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Telegraph

18
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ENIAC

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Electronic Numerical Integrator And Computer

19
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the first large-scale
computer to run at electronic speed without being slowed by any mechanical parts.

-the result of a U.S. government-funded project during World War II to build an electronic computer that could be programmed. The project was based out of the University of Pennsylvania’s Moore School of Engineering.

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Electronic Numerical Integrator And Computer

20
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was designed to provide users with a natural, intuitive and user-friendly computer interface.

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Macintosh computers

21
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is a wide-ranging branch of computer science concerned with building smart machines capable of performing tasks that typically require human intelligence.

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Artificial intelligence (AI)

22
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Users complain the network is too slow.

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Slow network

23
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Wi-Fi signal strength may be adequate almost everywhere, but it could be weak or nonexistent in other areas.

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Weak Wi-Fi signal

24
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A network connection can suddenly break because of physical connectivity issues.

A common problem is when a network cable becomes damaged or knocked loose.

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Physical connectivity issues

25
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Task Manager is the first thing to use to find which application is using a high proportion of system resources, such as CPU, memory or disk space.

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Excessive CPU usage

26
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According to Cambridge Dictionary, is defined as, “the present time, in which large amounts of information are available because of developments in computer technology” and it evolved in many ways.

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Information Age

27
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Father of Information Theory

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Claude E. Shannon

28
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enables processing of information

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Information Science

29
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is any use of computer to create, process, store, and retrieve information and data.

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Information Technology

30
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deals with the development, use, and management of an organization’s IT infrastructure.

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Information System

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