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Raw facts

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Data

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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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Examples of data

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BP
Temperature
Heart Rate
Etc.

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Processed data that has now meaning

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Information

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Information is data processed using —

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knowledge

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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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Information science involves aspects of which examples of science?

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Computer science
Cognitive science
Communication science

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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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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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When was abacus discovered in China?

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500 BC

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Inventor of Logarithms, Year

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John Napier, 1550-1617

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What was John Napier’s invention called?

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Napier’s Bone

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Napier’s bone math operation

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Multiplication only

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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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Who improved Napier’s bone? Year?

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Willian Oughtred (1700)

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Oughtred’s invention term

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Slide Rule

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Who invented Pascal/ Pascaline calculator? Year?

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Blaise Pascal, 1642

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Pascal/ Pascaline calculator math operation

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Addition and Subtraction only

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Blaise Pascal nationality and occupation

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French mathematician

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Who invented the Stepped Reckoner? Year?

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Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, 1622

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Stepped Reckoner math operation

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Addition
Subtraction
Multiplication
Division

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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
German mathematician
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Who invented the Jacquard Loom? Year?
Joseph Marie Jacquard, 1801
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Joseph Marie Jacquard nationality and occupation
French weaver and merchant
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Father of computer
Charles Babbage
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Charles Babbage nationality and occupation
English mathematician
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What did Babbage invent?
Analytical Engine/ Differene Engine
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When was the analytical engine proposed? Completed?
Proposal: 1822 Completed: 1842
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Use of the analytical engine
To solve and print the results in the form of mathematical tables
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2 main parts of the analytical engine and their purpose
1. Store: where numbers are storede 2. Mill: where numbers are woven into new results
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First programmer
Ada Lovelace Byron
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Who did Ada Lovelace Byron worked with?
Charles Babbge
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Father of Modern Automatic Computation
Herman Hollerith
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Herman Hollerith was the founder of what? In what year?
Tabulating Machine, 1890
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Merged with the IBM
Tabulating Machine (Hollerith)
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What is IBM?
It is where all stored data can be found
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Published a paper on 1936 about computable numbers
Alan Turing
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Alan Turing published a paer on (1) about computable numbers— "(2)" or "(3)"
1. 1936 2. Turing Game 3. Universal Game
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Alan Turing;d student
John Vincent Atanasoff
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What did Atanasoff invent? Year?
ABC Machine, 1939
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First electronic digital computer
ABC Machine
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The British made (1) with Alan Turing and produced during (2), which was secretly done in (3)
1. colossus 2. 1976 3. Bletchy Park
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The idea of the Colossus was coined in
December 1943
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Colossus aka
Enigma Machine
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it was used to crack German military codes during World War II
Enigma Machine
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1st fully operational computer
Colossus
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Who developed "Mark 1"? Year?
Howard Aiken , 1944
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Where was Mark 1 developed?
Harvard University
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Mark 1 aka
Automatic Sequence Controlled Calculator
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Slow and prone to malfunction; 1st general modern computer
Mark 1
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UNIVAC meaning
Universal Automatic Computer
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Proponents of UNIVAC, year
Eckert and Mauchly (Sperry-Rand Corp), 1951
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Uses of UNIVAC
1. Genral purpose 2. Stored program 3. Electronic digital computer
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1st commercialy successful first generation computer developed in Remington
UNIVAC
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IBM meaning
Internation Business Machine
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IBM was found on (1) and incorporated the idea of (2)
1. 1960 2. UNIVAC
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Dominant force in market of large main fram e computers
IBM
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The first mouse was made by (1) arounf (2), and it is made up of (3)
1. Doug Engelbart 2. 1964 3. wood

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