Information
Technology Fundamentals
Connecting Us
Business, Pleasure & the User
Hackathon
100
Using sound to understand data
What is Sonification?
100
Manage hardware resources of the computer, provide the user-interface components and provide a platform for software developers to write applications
What is an Operating System (OS)?
100
Precursor to the Internet
What is ARPAnet?
100
HCI
What is Human Computer Interaction?
100
Used to execute the same code repeatedly
What is a loop?
200
Data, Information, Knowledge and THIS
What is wisdom?
200
RAM & ROM
What is Random Access Memory and Read Only Memory, or What are common PC memory types?
200
Software designed to disrupt computer operation, gather sensitive information or gain unauthorized access to computer systems.
What is malware?
200
GUI
What is a Graphical User Interface?
200
This operating system puts the "L" in the LAMP stack.
What is Linux?
300
The key aspects of this course are Information, People, and THIS
What is technology?
300
Physical components of the computer.
What is Hardware?
300
Web Client Technologies (3) that render the pages appearance, captures the users input & validates the users input
What is CSS, HTML & Javascript?
300
Statistics on meeting events that are captured & analyzed
What is Meeting Metadata?
300
It's the "A" in LAMP.
What is Apache?
400
The idea that exponential growth of technology will cause changes that "appear to rupture the fabric of human history"
What is the Singularity?
400
ACSII
What is the American Standard Code for Information Interchange?
400
Created as a way to access Internet content by Tim Berners-Lee
What is the World Wide Web?
400
Objects are interdependent, the system contains entropy, systems contain over systems & systems evolve over time
What is Systems Thinking?
400
int, double, boolean, and String
What are Java types?
500
This agreement specifies how a company can use your personal information
What is a EULA?
500
The observation that, over the history of computing hardware, the number of transistors in integrated circuits doubles approximately every two years.
What is Moore's Law?
500
4 layers of the TCP/IP stack
What is the Application Layer, Transport Layer, Internet Layer & Network Access Layer?
500
Three criteria we discussed for User Experience (UX)
What are Appearance, Intuitive Interface, Ease of Navigation & Usefulness?
500
Java's preferred name for a function.
What is a method?
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