SOCIAL PROFESSIONAL ISSUES Flashcards
What major technological breakthroughs in electronics took place during the Second World War and in its aftermath?
The first programmable computer and the transistor.
Example sentence: The transistor made fast processing of electric impulses in a binary mode possible.
What is Moore’s law?
The observation that the number of transistors in an integrated circuit doubles approximately every two years.
Example sentence: Moore’s law led to a doubling of computer processing power every 18-24 months.
When did the time of Big Data commence?
In the last two decades of the 20th century and the first decade of the 21st.
Example sentence: Big Data involves analyzing massive amounts of data algorithmically to find patterns.
What major developments in telecommunication and computer networking technologies enabled networking capability in the 1970s?
New micro-electronic devices and stepped-up computing capacity.
Example sentence: The combination of telecommunication and computer networking technologies revolutionized networking capabilities.
When did the US Department of Defense create the first large computer network?
In 1969.
Example sentence: The US Department of Defense created the first large computer network through the Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA).
What led to the growth of the Web and the New Economy of tech companies online?
The growth of commercial providers of networks and the WWW.
Example sentence: The growth of commercial network providers and the WWW enabled the expansion of the Web and the New Economy of tech companies online.
