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Title: Information Technology


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Information Technology
  • Xiangming Mu
  • 9/14/2004

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What is Information Technology
  • Concerned with four processes
  • Information creation
  • Digital and Computer/network based HTML
  • Fast copy
  • Module
  • Information transmission
  • Internet
  • Real-time
  • Information storage
  • Storage
  • DBMS, data mining( analyze patterns in data and
    extract information)clustering, probability,
    relevance
  • Metadata (data about data), XML
  • Retrieval Search engines, TREC (Text Retrieval
    Conference)
  • Information management (informatics)
  • Information flow control
  • Information systems a combination of information
    creation, transmission, storage, and
    retrieval--interaction

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Questions related to Information Technology
  • Benefits of new information technology
  • Quality of life bigger/smaller, faster,
    farther..(e.g., design, build, and test new
    products)
  • More comfortable, more relax? usability
  • Shop, research, work, education online
  • More opportunities
  • More complex and unstable?
  • Disadvantages for new information technology?
  • Social ills?
  • Security and privacy?
  • Culture impacts?
  • Technology and society
  • New information technology impact our society
  • Social factors will impact the development of new
    information technology?

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Computers and Technology
  • History of the computer
  • Hardware
  • Input/output, processing devices (CPU), storage
    (memory, hard disk), and communication devices.
  • Software
  • Operating system
  • Application software
  • Programming, Markup, and Scripting Languages
  • Communication and Internet
  • Web browser, Internet service provider, IP
    address
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