STECH: MID 3 INFO Age Flashcards
An electromagnetic device that stores and processes data(information)
Computer
Types of computer:
- Personal Computer
- Desktop Computer
- Laptops
- Personal Digital Assistant
- Server
- Mainframes
- Wearable computers
Single user computer, micro computers, a computer built on a smaller scale
Personal computer
- PC that is not designed for portability
- It has more powerful processor, additional memory, and enhance capabilities for performing special groups of tasks
Desktop Computer
PCs that integrate the essential of a desktop computer in a battery operated package
LAPTOPS
Tightly integrated computers that usually have no keyboards but rely on a touch screen for user input
- Typically smaller than a paperback, lightweight and batter-powered
Personal digital Assistant(PDA)
Computers that ha sbeen improved to provide network services to other computers
- Usually bost powerful processors, tons of memory, and large hard drives
Server
- Huge computer systems that can fill an entire room
- Used by large firms that process millions of transactions everyday
Mainframes
Materials that are usually integrated into the cellphones, watches and other small objects or places
Wearable compuers
Father of Information Theory
Claude E. Shannon
World wide system of interconnected networks that facilitates ata transmission among innumerable computers
Internet
Applications of computers in science and research
- Bioinformatics
- SWISS-PROT protein sequence database
- Rational drug discovery
- Plant biotechnology
Applications of computers in science and research
- Bioinformatics
- SWISS-PROT protein sequence database
- Rational drug discovery
- Plant biotechnology
Information anxiety
Richard saul wurman
