Transcript Tech Term Flash cards

Vocabulary Flash cards
Computer Science – Espinosa
Acronym Hardware ?
This hardware component is the
The most important part of the computer that
controls the power & overall performance
Intel is the world wide industry leader of this
hardware component
Brain of the computer
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CPU
CPU – central processing unit
acronym ?
It is the address of a specific Web site or file on the
Internet.
URL
Uniform Resource Locator –
Example: http://www.alemany.org
Acronyms or File
Format ?
It is a popular compressed audio file format that
helped popularize digital music downloads beginning
in the late 1990s.
Because of their small size and good fidelity, they
have become a popular way to store music files on
both computers and portable devices like the iPod.
MP3
Stands for "MPEG-1 Audio Layer-3."
Acronyms ?
It is the most common type of computer port used in
today's computers.
It can be used to connect keyboards, mice, game
controllers, printers, scanners, digital cameras, and
removable media drives, just to name a few.
USB
Universal Serial Bus
Acronyms ?
Refers to software that accurately represents the
final output during the development phase.
Example, Microsoft Word & Apple Pages are both
this type of editors, because they include page layout
modes that accurately display what the documents
will look when printed.
WYSIWYG
What you see is what you get
Pronounced “wihzeewig”
People ?
They offered the first popular operating system that
first ran on the IBM personal computers (DOS) and
eventually Windows.
They also created the most often used business suite
of software applications such as Word, Excel,
PowerPoint etc.
Co-founders of Microsoft
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Bill Gates & Paul Allen
People ?
Back in the early 1980s - they started the PC
Revolution
Co-creators of the first Apple computers
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Steve Jobs &
Steve Wozniak
Acronyms ?
An acronym that implies a list of often asked
questions
Many web sites have a web page devoted to
answering these questions
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FAQ
Frequently Asked Questions
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Home to the world’s largest technology corporations.
Special name given to a location – southern part of San
Francisco Bay area to San Jose California.
Goes through Mountain View & Palo Alto near Stanford
Univ.
Called this because originally this region had the largest
number of chip makers. (Chips are made of silicon
because silicon conducts electricity well).
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Silicon Valley
Home to Google, Pixar, Apple, ebay, Facebook, Etc.
People ? **
invented the World Wide Web
www - an Internet-based hypermedia initiative for global
information sharing while at CERN, the European Particle
Physics Laboratory in 1989
created the addresses known as URL’s
created the language HTML
runs the W3C consortium
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Tim Berners-Lee
Internet ? **
A process that involves outsourcing tasks to a
distributed group of people.
This process can occur both online and offline and
the difference between this activity and ordinary
outsourcing is that a task or problem is outsourced to
an undefined public rather than a specific body.
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Crowd Sourcing
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Under the ________ doctrine of the U.S. copyright
statute, it is permissible to use limited portions of a
work including quotes, for purposes such as
commentary, criticism,
news reporting,
and scholarly reports
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Fair Use
Fair Use is sometimes hard to define
For example showing short clips on movies to do
movie reviews is fair;
But it is not fair to show the part that gives away a
mystery.
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As a general matter, copyright _________occurs
when a copyrighted work is reproduced, distributed,
performed, publicly displayed,
or made into a derivative work without the
permission of the copyright owner.
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infringement
People ?? **
Fathers of the Internet –
They won a Presidential Medal of freedom award in
2005 for their development of the Internet
which laid the foundation for a global
transformationof communication, commerce, and
entertainment.
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Vint Cert & Bob Kahn
They wrote TCP/IP the language of the Internet
The Internet sends packets of data across the
Internet.
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A work of authorship is in the ___________ if it is no
longer under copyright protection
or if it failed to meet the requirements for copyright
protection.
These works may be used freely without the
permission of the former copyright owner.
Public Domain
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Someone born in a world without computers
everywhere.
These people did not grow up with digital cameras,
mobile devices, home computers etc.
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Digital Immigrant
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A set of moral principles that govern the behavior of
a group or individual as it relates to computer use.
Some common issues of ________ include
intellectual property rights (such as copyrighted
electronic content),
privacy concerns, and
how computers affect society.
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Computer Ethics
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Someone born into a world where computer gadgets
were everywhere – home, work, schools, shopping,
etc.
Computers are common place and just a part of their
lives.
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Digital Native