Acroynms
QR Codes
What are Quick Response Codes?
Marc Zuckerbergs brain child.
What is Facebook?
This site is a Plagiarism checker
What is Turnitin?
Very large data sets that are analyzed to reveal patterns, trends, and associations.
What is Big Data?
A.I.
What is Artificial Intelligence?
The discrepancy between those who have access to the opportunities and knowledge that computers and the Internet offer and those who do not.
What is the digital divide?
IFTTT
What is If This Then That?
The company logo was named after NBA superstar Larry Bird
What is Twitter?
This website allows people in need to crowdfund to raise money for things such as medical bills or tuition
What is GoFundMe?
Accessing computing resources as needed through the Internet
What is cloud computing?
A simple test to distinguish between a human and a computer system
What is the Turing Test?
Work that is the result of someone’s creativity and knowledge, such as music, writing, and software, and that is protected by copyright law and documented by copyrights, patents, and trademarks
What is intellectual property?
MOOC
What are Massive Open Online Courses?
A simple, fun & creative way to capture, edit & share photos, videos & messages with friends & family.
What is Instagram?
This company uses a style of generating capital to start a business is known as crowdfunding
What is Kickstarter?
Understanding the capabilities and limitations of computers and you know how to use them safely and efficiently
What is computer literacy?
AI systems that help people discover things they may like but are unlikely to discover on their own
What are recommendation engines?
Using computers and computer networks in a subversive way to promote an agenda usually related to causes such as free speech, human rights, or freedom of information
What is Hacktivism?
NLP
What is Natural Language Processing?
With this social media app pictures and messages are only available for a short time before they become inaccessible
What is SnapChat?
This website uses AI software to search through data on millions of patient visits and treatments provided by thousands of physicians
What is Modernizing Medicine?
This term reflects the combination of leisure time and the tools to be creative
What is cognitive surplus?
Systems capable of learning from their mistakes
What is deep learning?
Replacing the reality you perceive, with a different world.
What is virtual reality (VR)?
NEI
What is the Next Einstein Initiative?
(Swahili for “testimony”). It is a crisis-mapping tool
What is Ushahidi?
Provides video documentation of human rights abuses; the project contributed to the arrest of warlords in the Democratic Republic of the Congo for the recruitment of child soldiers
What is The Witness Project?
Analyzes computer systems with specific techniques to gather potential legal evidence
What is Computer forensics?
A type of AI that doesn't need to be specifically programmed but rather can learn from exposure to, and analysis of, data.
What is machine learning?
The addition of digital information directly into our reality, either to add more detail or at times to remove unwanted visual effects
What is Augmented Reality?