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Characters of a Computer
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-Processes data without human intervention using stored instructions -outputs information |
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What are characters of a "Program"
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-Written in a language that computer can understand |
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GIGO
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Garbage in, garbage out |
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What are hardware compunents
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-Physical devices, such as keyboards, monitors, and processing units |
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Software
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Programs written in computer language |
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CPU |
-Heart of the computer, divided into two components: Arithmetic logiv unit(ALU) and Control Unit. |
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Bus
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-Link between devices connected to the computer
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What are three computer performance factors
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-Processor -Bus -Operating system |
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Disk Drive |
a peripheral device for recording, storing, and retrieving information.
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CPU Case
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-the enclosure containing the computer's main components |
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Motherboard |
The main circuit board containing connectors for attaching additional boards. |
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How many generations of hardware are there?
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5 |
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What are the major technologies of each hardware generation?
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Second - Transistors Third-Integrated circuits, remote data entry, telecommunications Fourth-Miniaturization, VLSI, personal computers, optical discs Fifth-Parallel processing, gallium arsenide chips, optical technologies |
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How many generations of the computer languages?
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5 |
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What are the major attributes of the computer language generations?
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Second - Assembly language Third-High-level language fourth- Fourth-generation language Fifth-Natural language processing (NLP) |
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What is IBM Watson?
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-Beat two former champions of Jeopardy -Took away the $1 million prize |
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What was IBM Watson's massive storage space?
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-200 million pages of content - 4 TB of disk space |
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What are the factors of computers that exceed human capacities
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-Accuracy -Storage and retieval |
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How is computer speed measured?
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As the number of instructions performed per fractions of a second |
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