Hardware, Software, Input, Output
Digitally Representations
Digitally Representing Other Information
Lossless and Lossy Compression
Logic Gates
Vocab
Copyright and Fair Use
100
The physical parts of a computer you can touch, like the CPU, RAM, and keyboard.
What is hardware?
100
In binary, each position represents a power of this number.
What is 2?
100
In digital images, each tiny dot is called a ____.
What is a pixel?
100
Compression that reduces file size with no loss of original information.
What is lossless compression?
100
A gate that outputs 1 only when both inputs are 1.
What is AND?
100
A binary digit; the smallest unit of data in computing.
What is a bit?
100
The legal protection that gives creators exclusive rights to original works like music, writing, and art.
What is copyright?
200
Programs and instructions that tell the hardware what to do.
What is software?
200
Convert binary 1010₂ to decimal.
What is 10?
200
This describes a method for representing sound by recording measurements at regular time intervals.
What is sampling?
200
Compression that reduces file size by permanently removing some information humans may not notice.
What is lossy compression?
200
A gate that outputs 1 when at least one input is 1.
What is OR?
200
8 bits
What is a byte?
200
Using parts of a copyrighted work without permission for certain purposes like commentary, criticism, and education.
What is fair use?
300
This type of device sends data into the computer (e.g., mouse, microphone, scanner).
What is an input device?
300
Data that changes discretely through a finite set of possible values
What is digital data?
300
In digital audio, the number of samples captured per second (e.g., 44,100 per second for CD audio).
What is the sample rate?
300
Why would a music streaming service typically choose lossy compression over lossless for most users?
What is: smaller files = faster streaming and less data use, with acceptable quality for many listeners?
300
A gate that flips its input: 0 becomes 1 and 1 becomes 0.
What is NOT?
300
Overflow
A result that is too large to be stored in an available space
300
This is the name of an agreement that allows a person to use a copyrighted work. Sometimes a fee is required
What is a license?
400
This type of device sends information from the computer to you (e.g., monitor, speakers, printer).
What is an output device?
400
Data with values that change continuously or smoothly. Some examples include music or colors in a sunset.
What is analog data
400
This is the representation of the following image, if 1=black and 0=white
What is 101101
400
This type of compression is appropriate for a spreadsheet.
What is lossless compression?
400
What is this gate? 
XOR
400
This is the part of the computer that performs computations and commands
What is a processor or CPU?
400
This is the name of a flexible system to allow the use of copyrighted works.
what is Creative Commons?
500
This type of output device is an example of an analog output.
What is a speaker?
500
In a calculator that uses 4 bits, this is the biggest number that can be represented.
What is 15?
500
This representation uses a base 16 system.
What is hexadecimal?
500
The most common form of compression for images found on the internet.
what is lossy compression?
500
This gate has the following output.
What is NAND?
500
The process of simplifying complex systems by hiding unnecessary details and focusing on essential features, allowing users to interact with high-level functions without needing to understand the intricate underlying mechanics.
What is abstraction?
500
These are three reasons that OpenAI argues it should be able to use articles from the New York Times to train its model.
What is:
•Training an AI on publicly available content is transformative.
•ChatGPT doesn't compete directly with the NYT.
•Outputs are not replicas of the original articles.