Transcript Tech Term Flash cards

Vocabulary Flash cards
Computer Science – Espinosa
Technical ?
It is actually short for "Picture Element."
These small little dots are what make up the images
on computer displays, whether they are flat-screen
(LCD) or tube (CRT) monitors.
The screen is divided up into a matrix of thousands or
even millions of them.
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Pixel
Technical
It refers to a networking technology that does not
use cables that allows computers and other devices
to communicate via a signal.
Nearly all computers now have built-in ______ cards
that allows users to search for and connect to routers
without using a cable.
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Wi-Fi
Stands for Wireless Fidelity
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The study of how humans interact with manmade
objects.
Product designs that try to make people more
productive and reduce the stress & fatigue on the
body.
Ergonomics
Technical Terms ? **
Term can describe how many pixels a monitor can
display or how fine a printer can print (dpi – dots –
per inch)
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Resolution
Technical ?
Largest Network of computers in the world.
No one owns it.
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Internet
Technical ?
a computer network limited to a small area such as
an office building, university, or even a residential
home.
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LAN
Local Area Network
Technical ?
____ is the ability of a computer to act like a human
being.
It has several applications, including software
simulations and robotics and video games to act as
another player
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Artificial Intelligence
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A legal means of protecting an author's work.
It is a type of intellectual property that provides exclusive
publication, distribution, and usage rights for the author.
This means whatever content the author created cannot
be used or published by anyone else without the consent
of the author.
For example, a blog on the Internet, your content is
automatically covered by ___________.
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URL
Uniform Resource Locator –
Example: http://www.alemany.org
Acronyms ?
Refers to software that accurately represents the
final output during the development phase.
Example, Microsoft Word & Apple Pages are both
this type of editors, because they include page layout
modes that accurately display what the documents
will look when printed.
WYSIWYG
What you see is what you get
Pronounced “wihzeewig”
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Home to the world’s largest technology corporations.
Special name given to a location – southern part of San
Francisco Bay area to San Jose California.
Goes through Mountain View & Palo Alto near Stanford
Univ.
Called this because originally this region had the largest
number of chip makers. (Chips are made of silicon
because silicon conducts electricity well).
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Silicon Valley
Home to Google, Pixar, Apple, ebay, Facebook, Etc.
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invented the World Wide Web
www - an Internet-based hypermedia initiative for global
information sharing while at CERN, the European Particle
Physics Laboratory in 1989
created the addresses known as URL’s
created the language HTML
runs the W3C consortium
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Tim Berners-Lee
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A process that involves outsourcing tasks to a
distributed group of people.
This process can occur both online and offline and
the difference between this activity and ordinary
outsourcing is that a task or problem is outsourced to
an undefined public rather than a specific body.
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Crowd Sourcing
People ?? **
Fathers of the Internet –
They won a Presidential Medal of freedom award in
2005 for their development of the Internet
which laid the foundation for a global
transformationof communication, commerce, and
entertainment.
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Vint Cert & Bob Kahn
They wrote TCP/IP the language of the Internet
The Internet sends packets of data across the
Internet.
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Someone born in a world without computers
everywhere.
These people did not grow up with digital cameras,
mobile devices, home computers etc.
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Digital Immigrant
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A set of moral principles that govern the behavior of
a group or individual as it relates to computer use.
Some common issues of ________ include
intellectual property rights (such as copyrighted
electronic content),
privacy concerns, and
how computers affect society.
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Computer Ethics
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Someone born into a world where computer gadgets
were everywhere – home, work, schools, shopping,
etc.
Computers are common place and just a part of their
lives.
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Digital Native