Electronic components used in appliances to detect and alert when certain conditions exist.
What is a sensor?
The gap between those with access to technology and those without.
What is the digital divide?
An environment where devices are embedded in everyday objects and communicate over the Internet or wireless networks.
What is the Internet of Things (IoT)?
An automated app that searches web pages for data.
What is a web crawler?
Electronic transactions over the Internet.
What is eCommerce?
Measured in gigabytes, the memory area of a computer that holds programs and data while the computer is on.
What is RAM?
The interface that the most common operating systems include.
What is a GUI? (Graphical User Interface)
Computer aided technology that allows manufacturing processes to use computers.
What is CAM?
Used to make payments from your smartphone.
What is a digital wallet?
The technology that uses physical characteristics for individual identification.
What is biometrics?
The largest network in the world.
What is the Internet?
The type of app used to share comments, articles, and images.
What is social networking?
The area of Artificial Intelligence that combines technology and engineering to create systems allowing machines to perform repetitive tasks automatically.
What is Robotics?
Used to search for data across the Internet.
What is a search site?
The concept that computers can learn to do something by finding patterns in data.
What is Machine Learning
A simulated, 3-D environment that you can explore and manipulate.
What is virtual reality?
The temporary storage space for recently or frequently used data.
What is Cache memory?
A branch of computer science devoted to increasing the intelligence of machines and programming computers to think like humans.
What is AI (Artificial Intelligence?)
A number system with two digits, 0 and 1.
What is the binary system?
Type these to narrow a search engine search.
What are quotation marks?
The technology that makes speech recognition possible.
What is natural language processing?
A company providing computing services over the Internet.
What is a cloud service provider?
A database that allows for relationships between tables through linking.
What is a relational database?
The hardware considered the brains of the computer and is required for software to run.
What is the CPU (Central Processing Unit?)
The key used in Windows to create a copy by dragging.
What is the CTRL key?