Midterms | Information Technology Flashcards

1
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Raw facts

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Data

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2
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Data

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  1. Alpha data
  2. Numeric
  3. Alpha numeric
  4. Audio
  5. Image
  6. Video
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3
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Examples of data

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BP
Temperature
Heart Rate
Etc.

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4
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Processed data that has now meaning

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Information

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5
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Information is data processed using —

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knowledge

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6
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Example of information

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  • Combination of BP, temp, and HR for patients information
  • Diagnosis
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Multidisciplinary science that involves aspects from computer science, cognitive science, communication science, etc. to deal with obtaining, gathering, organizing, managing, storing, etc. of information

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Information science

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8
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Information science involves aspects of which examples of science?

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Computer science
Cognitive science
Communication science

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9
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Information science is concerned with (1) / processing (1) to produce a/n (2) of data and information through (3)

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  1. input
  2. output feedback
  3. tecchnology information
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10
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Very first calculating tool

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Abacus

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When and where was abacus discovered by the Babylonians?

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300 BC in Mesopotamia

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12
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When was abacus discovered in China?

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500 BC

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13
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Inventor of Logarithms, Year

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John Napier, 1550-1617

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14
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What was John Napier’s invention called?

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Napier’s Bone

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15
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Napier’s bone math operation

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Multiplication only

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16
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Napier’s bone rods were commonly made with?

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Bone of animals
Metals
Ivory

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17
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Who improved Napier’s bone? Year?

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Willian Oughtred (1700)

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18
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Oughtred’s invention term

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Slide Rule

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19
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Who invented Pascal/ Pascaline calculator? Year?

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Blaise Pascal, 1642

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20
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Pascal/ Pascaline calculator math operation

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Addition and Subtraction only

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21
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Blaise Pascal nationality and occupation

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French mathematician

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22
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Who invented the Stepped Reckoner? Year?

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Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, 1622

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23
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Stepped Reckoner math operation

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Addition
Subtraction
Multiplication
Division

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24
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When was Stepped Reckoner’s idea made? Completed?

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Idea: 1622
Completed: 1642

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Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz nationality and occupation

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German mathematician

26
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Who invented the Jacquard Loom? Year?

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Joseph Marie Jacquard, 1801

27
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Joseph Marie Jacquard nationality and occupation

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French weaver and merchant

28
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Father of computer

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Charles Babbage

29
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Charles Babbage nationality and occupation

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English mathematician

30
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What did Babbage invent?

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Analytical Engine/ Differene Engine

31
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When was the analytical engine proposed? Completed?

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Proposal: 1822
Completed: 1842

32
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Use of the analytical engine

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To solve and print the results in the form of mathematical tables

33
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2 main parts of the analytical engine and their purpose

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  1. Store: where numbers are storede
  2. Mill: where numbers are woven into new results
34
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First programmer

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Ada Lovelace Byron

35
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Who did Ada Lovelace Byron worked with?

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Charles Babbge

36
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Father of Modern Automatic Computation

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Herman Hollerith

37
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Herman Hollerith was the founder of what? In what year?

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Tabulating Machine, 1890

38
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Merged with the IBM

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Tabulating Machine (Hollerith)

39
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What is IBM?

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It is where all stored data can be found

40
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Published a paper on 1936 about computable numbers

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Alan Turing

41
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Alan Turing published a paer on (1) about computable numbers— “(2)” or “(3)”

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  1. 1936
  2. Turing Game
  3. Universal Game
42
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Alan Turing;d student

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John Vincent Atanasoff

43
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What did Atanasoff invent? Year?

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ABC Machine, 1939

44
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First electronic digital computer

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ABC Machine

45
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The British made (1) with Alan Turing and produced during (2), which was secretly done in (3)

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  1. colossus
  2. 1976
  3. Bletchy Park
46
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The idea of the Colossus was coined in

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December 1943

47
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Colossus aka

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Enigma Machine

48
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it was used to crack German military codes during World War II

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Enigma Machine

49
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1st fully operational computer

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Colossus

50
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Who developed “Mark 1”? Year?

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Howard Aiken , 1944

51
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Where was Mark 1 developed?

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Harvard University

52
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Mark 1 aka

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Automatic Sequence Controlled Calculator

53
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Slow and prone to malfunction; 1st general modern computer

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Mark 1

54
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UNIVAC meaning

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Universal Automatic Computer

55
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Proponents of UNIVAC, year

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Eckert and Mauchly (Sperry-Rand Corp), 1951

56
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Uses of UNIVAC

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  1. Genral purpose
  2. Stored program
  3. Electronic digital computer
56
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1st commercialy successful first generation computer developed in Remington

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UNIVAC

57
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IBM meaning

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Internation Business Machine

58
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IBM was found on (1) and incorporated the idea of (2)

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  1. 1960
  2. UNIVAC
59
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Dominant force in market of large main fram e computers

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IBM

60
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The first mouse was made by (1) arounf (2), and it is made up of (3)

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  1. Doug Engelbart
  2. 1964
  3. wood