Comp 111

Front 1

Who is charles babbage?

Back 1

father of computer
- inventor and mathematician

Front 2

Who is alan turning?

Back 2

father of computer science and artificial intelligence

Front 3

who is sir tim berners-lee?

Back 3

inventor of HTML (basis of internet)

Front 4

is sharing information good or bad?

Back 4

Good:
- management
- prevention
- diagnosis
- DNA of diseases

Bad:
- generated by users but could be inaccurate; manipulated etc
- anti vaccine could be more convincing than the vaccine
- privacy overblown

Front 5

How do people get info on personal health off the internet?

Back 5

website called patients like me
- allows people to access health information from personal experience to find treaments

google flu
- helps predict outbreaks which is helpful for everyone

Front 6

Geoprocessing - intersect and union

Back 6

intersect
- area that is common to both layers preserving line work in picture

union
- combines features of 2 or several themes where features can be broken into new shape
- keeps all attributes

Front 7

what is artificial intelligence?

Back 7

intelligence of machienes/software and computations they perform

the ability to reason, act on that reasoning to make decisions

Front 8

artificial intelligence techniques
-what is case-based reasoning?

Back 8

- solving new problems based on solutions of similar past problems

- retrieve - reuse - revise - retain

*as its based on previous past problems there is no garenteed solution nor is it correct

Front 9

how do we use virtual spaces in education?

Back 9

MOOC - massive open online course

- shared space
-socialise
-interact
real time learning

Front 10

5 pillars of IA?

Back 10

1. (A) avaliability
2. (A) authentication
3. (I) intergrety
4. (C) confidentiality
5. (N) non- repudiation

Front 11

4 browser threats?

Back 11

1. cookies
2.javascripts
3.VBS
4.flash

Front 12

gordon moore law?

Back 12

the number of transistors in circuit board double every 2 years

Front 13

ray kurzweil law

Back 13

"the singularity"
- humans merging with technology literally

ray made many predictions about the world where some were right eg. wars etc

Front 14

law of accelerating returns?

Back 14

extension of moores law
- "returns" of evolutionary processes increases exponentially over time

Front 15

how to protect cellphone from threats?

Back 15

encryption. password. remove battery. bluetooth off. faraday cage. wipe it. back it up.

Front 16

what did mark weiser come up with?

Back 16

ubiquitos computing
- no hardware/no paper
- computors will become part of the environment

Front 17

how many satilites is needed for GPS?

Back 17

4

Front 18

looking foward
- personal use of ICT?

Back 18

facebook
blogging
emails

*negatives = bully. personal info out on internet