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L1- information age Flashcards

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diff areas of society that have been influenced

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communication, economics, industry, health, and the environment

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knowledge communicated or obtained concerning a specific fact or circumstance

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information

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on what period/century information age included

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period starting in the last quarter of the 20th century

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it is the period when information became effortlessly accessible through publications and through the management of information by computers and computer networks

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information age

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5
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information age is also called ?

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digital age and the new media age

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he proposed the theory of information age

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James R. Messenger

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on what year did Messenger proposed the theory of information age

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1982

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according to him, the information age is a true new age based upon the interconnection of computers via telecommunications, with these information systems operating on both a real-time and as needed basis

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James R. Messenger

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event on 3000 BC

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sumerian writing system used pictographs to represent words

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event during 2900 BC

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beginnings of egyptian hieroglyphic writing

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event on 1300 BC

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tortoise shell and oracle bone writing were used

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event on 500 BC

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papyrus roll was used

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event on 220 BC

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chinese small seal writing was developed

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14
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event on 100 AD

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book (parchment codex)

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event on 105 AD

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woodblock printing and paper was invented by the Chinese

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event on 1455

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johannes gutenberg invented the printing press using movable metal type

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he invented the printing press using movable metal type

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johannes gutenberg

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18
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event on 1755

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samuel johnson’s dictionary standardized english spelling

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19
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who writes the world’s first computer program

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augusta lady byron

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20
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where was the telegraph invented

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great britain and the united states

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21
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who invented the electronic amplifying tube (triode)

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lee deforest

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22
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television camera tube was invented by who

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Zvorkyn

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23
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who foresaw the invention of hypertext

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Vannevar Bush

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24
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who proposed field-of-information theory

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Claude E. Shannon

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25
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hypercard was developed by ?

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Bill Atkinson

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26
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wow many works of literature completed on one CD-ROM on 1991

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FOUR HUNDRED FIFTY

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27
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when was the real angst set in

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1980s

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28
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who labeled the real angst during 1980s as INFORMATION ANXIETY

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Richard Wurman

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29
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described as a PC that is not designed for portability. it has more powerful processor, additional memory, and enhanced capabilities for performing special group of tasks such as 3d graphics or game development

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desktop computer

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30
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portable computers integrating the essentials of a desktop computer in a battery-powered package, which are somewhat larger than a typical hardcover book. commonly called as notebooks

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laptops

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31
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tightly integrated computers that usually have no keyboards but rely on a touch screen for user input. typically smaller than a paperback, lightweight, and battery-powered

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personal digital assistants (PDAs)

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32
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PDA meaning

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personal digital assistants

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33
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refers to a computer that has been improved to provide network services to other computers. servers usually boast powerful processors, tons of memory, and large hard drives

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server

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huge computer systems that can fill an entire room. used specially by large firms to describe the large, expensive machines that process millions of transactions every day

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mainframes

35
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involve materials that are usually integrated into cellphones, watches, and other small objects or places. they perform common computer applications such as databases, email, multimedia, and schedulers

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wearable computers

36
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american mathematician who was considered as the FATHER OF INFORMATION THEORY

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claude e. shannon

37
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internet or www was developed during the ? by the ?

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1970s, Department of Defense

38
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the internet remained under gov’t control until ?

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1984

39
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one early problem faced by Internet users?

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speed

40
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directors of a Stanford research project who built a search engine that listed results to reflect page popularity when they determined that the most popular result would frequently be the most usable

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sergey brin and larry page

41
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world’s popular search engine, accepting more than 200 million queries daily

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Google

42
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internet service providers like ? set up electronic chat rooms. these were open areas of cyberspace where interested parties could join in a conversation with perfect strangers

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America Online and CompuServe

43
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microsoft

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bill gates

44
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apple

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steve jobs

45
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facebook

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mark zuckerberg

46
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application of information technology to store, organize and analyze vast amount of biological data which is available in the form of sequences and structures of proteins

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bioinformatics

47
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consolidated formal database known as ?? was initiated in ??

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SWISS-PROT protein sequence database, 1986

48
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swiss-prot now has ??? protein sequences from more than 5,000 model organisms

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70,000

49
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these are widely used for generating these databases and to identify the function of proteins, model the structure of proteins, determine the coding regions of nucleic acid sequences, find suitable drug compounds + etc

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computers and software tools

50
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some of the software tools which are handy in the analysis

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BLAST, annotator, GeneFinder

51
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BLAST function

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used for comparing sequences

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annotator function

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interactive genome analysis tool

53
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GeneFinder purpose

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tool to identify coding regions and splice sites

54
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the human genome research in 1988 is so huge that if compiled in books, the data would run into ?? volumes of ??? pages each and reading would require how many years

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200 volumes of 1,000 pages. 26 years working around the clock

55
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how many genomic sequence difference database entries for a 5 billion human beings

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15,000,000

56
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much-celebrated complete human genome sequence was formally announced on ??

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26th of June 2000

57
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much-celebrated complete human genome sequence involved more than ???

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500 x 1018 (500 million trillion) calculations during the process of assembling the sequences alone

58
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profound application of bioinformatics in genome sequence where potential targets for product development are hypothesized from the genome sequences

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Insight

59
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it requires a lot of calculations and has become faster due to the advances in computer processors and its architecture

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Molecular Modeling

60
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in plant biotech, bioinformatics is found to be useful in what areas

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identifying diseases resistance genes and designing plants with high nutrition value

61
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.edu

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educational

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.com

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commercial

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.mil

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military

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.gov

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governmetn

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.org

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nonprofit

66
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AFA e-newsletter

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Alzheimer’s Foundation of America newsletter

67
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library of congress historical digital collection

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american memory

68
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collection of free e-books including fictions, non-fictions, references, and verses

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bartleby.com Great Books Online

69
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search and view pages from american newspapers from 1880-1022

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chronicling america

70
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free collection of e-books from ebrary plus additional reports and documents to help better understand, prevent, and take action against this growing concern

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cyber bullying

71
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drug information websites:

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national library of medicine’s medlineplus
drugs.com
PDRHealth

72
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history sites with primary documents

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AMDOCS
avalon project
internet modern history sourcebook
teacher oz’s kingdom of history

73
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digital library of internet sites and other cultural artifact in digital form

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internet archive

74
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a digital library of primary sources in American social history

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making of america

75
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merger of librarians’ internet index and internet public library

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ipl2

76
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massive central data source and a handy way to graphically compare nations

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nationmaster

77
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first and largest single collection of free electronic books with currently over 20,000 e-books available

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project gutenberg

78
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literature, US History, and poetry information written primarily by PhD and masters students from top universities like Stanford, Berkeley, harvard, and yale

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shmoop

79
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unique statistical database which allows you to research and compare a multitude of different data on US states using various primary sources such as the US Census Bureau, the FBI, and the National Center for Educational Statistics. uses visualization tech like pie charts, maps, graphs, scatter plots to provide data

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statemaster

80
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selected web resources compiled by the library of congress

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virtual reference

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