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Picture Perfect
100
This process is the use of computers to create abstract representations of objects, organisms, organizations and processes
What is modelling?
100
This is the smallest element of a spreadsheet
What is a cell?
100
These are input and output necessities that correct or modify actions based on feedback from the outside world
What are sensors?
100
This is the shortened form of modulator demodulator
What is modem?
100
These are tiny dots on a screen
What is a pixel?
200
This drawback of simulations is abbreviated as GIGO
What is Garbage In Garbage Out?
200
This is a field that contains data that uniquely identifies a record
What is the key field?
200
This is the computer science devoted to making computers perceive and reason and act in a way similar to humans
What is artificial intelligence?
200
This guards against unauthorized access to an internal network
What is a firewall?
200
This is the standard page-description language for describing text fonts and illustrations
What is PostScript?
300
Everquest and WOW are examples of these games that allow people to interact in virtual worlds
What is a MMORPG?
300
This is a spreadsheet's most important capabilities
What is automatic recalculation?
300
The following are elements of this: the knowledge base, inference engine and human interface
What is an expert system?
300
This occurs when every computer is both the client and the server
What is the peer to peer model?
300
This is the process of creating motion from still pictures
What is animation?
400
This is when a computer and a user respond to data from each other in a simulation
What is a feedback loop?
400
This is an information request within a database
What is a query?
400
This is the most difficult part of expert system to build
What is the knowledge base?
400
This is a wireless alternative to cable or DSL service
What is WiMax?
400
This allows each pixel to appear as black,white, or gray
What are gray-scale graphics?
500
This is created when viewers control one or more characters or plot lines
What is an interactive movie?
500
This is the biggest issue when regarding databases
What is privacy?
500
This software locates and identifies printed characters embedded in images
What is optical character recognition?
500
These are networks that rely on centralized routers to function
What are mesh networks?
500
This is the combination of CAD and CAM
What is CIM?