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STECH: MID 3 INFO Age Flashcards

1
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An electromagnetic device that stores and processes data(information)

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Computer

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2
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Types of computer:

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  1. Personal Computer
  2. Desktop Computer
  3. Laptops
  4. Personal Digital Assistant
  5. Server
  6. Mainframes
  7. Wearable computers
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Single user computer, micro computers, a computer built on a smaller scale

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Personal computer

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4
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  • PC that is not designed for portability
  • It has more powerful processor, additional memory, and enhance capabilities for performing special groups of tasks
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Desktop Computer

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5
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PCs that integrate the essential of a desktop computer in a battery operated package

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LAPTOPS

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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 batter-powered
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Personal digital Assistant(PDA)

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Computers that ha sbeen improved to provide network services to other computers

  • Usually bost 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 by large firms that process millions of transactions everyday
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Mainframes

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Materials that are usually integrated into the cellphones, watches and other small objects or places

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Wearable compuers

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10
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Father of Information Theory

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Claude E. Shannon

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World wide system of interconnected networks that facilitates ata transmission among innumerable computers

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Internet

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12
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Applications of computers in science and research

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  • Bioinformatics
  • SWISS-PROT protein sequence database
  • Rational drug discovery
  • Plant biotechnology
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Applications of computers in science and research

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  • Bioinformatics
  • SWISS-PROT protein sequence database
  • Rational drug discovery
  • Plant biotechnology
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14
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Information anxiety

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Richard saul wurman

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