Information Science Chapter 1

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Network

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A collection of computers and devices connected together, often wirelessly, via communication devices and transmition media.

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Resources

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Hardware, software, data, and information networks all your computers to share them.

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Internet

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A worldwide collection of networks that connects millions of businesses, government agencies, educational institutions, and individuals.

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Web/ WWW

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Short for World Wide Web, one of the most popular services on the Internet. It contains billions of documents called web pages.

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Web Page

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Can contain text, graphics, animation, audio, and video.

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Web 2.0

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Refers to Web sites, that provides a mean for users to share personal information ( such as social networking Web sites), allows users to modify the websites and/or have software built into the site for users access.

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GUI

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Graphical User Interface, you interact with sofware using text, graphics, and visual images such as icons.

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Icon

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A pictogram displayed on a computer screen used to navigate a computer directly and thoughroughly to a task that the user wishes to perform.

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Operating System

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A set of programs that coordinates all the activities among computer hardware devices.

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Utility/Utility Program

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Allows user to perform maintanence-type tasks usually related to managing a computer, its devices, or its programs.

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Installing

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The proccess of setting up sofware to work with the computer, printer, and other hardware.

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Loading

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Program is copied from storage to memory.

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Programmer

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Sometimes called a developer, is someone who developes software or writes the instructions that direct the computer to proccess data into information.

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Computer Literacy

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Also known as digital literacy, involves having a current knowladge and understanding of computers and their use.

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Computer

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An electronic device, operating under the controll of instructions shared in its own memory, that can accept data, proccess the data according to specific rules, produce results and store the results for future use.

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Data

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A collection of unprocessed items, which can include text, numbers, images, audio, and video.

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Information

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Conveys meaning and is useful to people.

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Information processing cycle

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The series of input, process, output, and storage activities.

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Hardware

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Many electric, electronic, and mechanical components.

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Input device

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Any hardware component that allows you to enter data and instructions into a computer.

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Output device

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Any hardware component that conveys information to one or more people.

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CPU

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Central Processing Unit: the electrical component that interprets and carries out the basic instructions that operate the computer.

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Memory

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Consists of electronic components that store instructions waiting to be executed and data needed by those instructions.

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Storage/storage device

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Records (writes) and/or retrieves (reads) items to and from storage media.

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Communication device

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A hardware component that enables a computer to send (transmit) and recieve instructuctions to information to and from one or mpre computers or mobile devices.

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Convergence

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The trend of computers and devices with technology that overlap.

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Personal Computer

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A computer that can perform all of its input, processing, output, and storage activities by itself.

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Desktop Computer

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Is designed so that the system unit, input devices, output devices, and any other devices fit entirely on a desk or table.

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Mobile Computer

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A personal computer you can carry from place to place.

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Notebook/Laptop Computer

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A portable, personal computer often designed to fit on your lap.

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Tablet PC

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A special type of notebook computer that allows you to write or draw on the screen using a digital pen.

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Embedded Computer

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A special-purpose computer that functions as a component in a larger product.

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Server

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Controlls access ot the hardware, software, and other resources on a network and provides a centralized storage area for programs, data, and information.

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Mainframe

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A large, expensive, powerful computer that can handle hundreds or thousands of connected users simultaneoulsy.

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Supercomputer

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The fastest, most powerful computer- and the most expensive.

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Operating System

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Performs basic tasks, such as recognizing input from the keyboard and sending output to the display screen.

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Tower

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The main part of the computer, it contains the mother board, poewr supply, cd/floppy/dvd or any other drives or parts.

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Handheld

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A device that can be held in ones hand.

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System software

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Consists of the programs that controls or maintain the operations of the computer and its devices.

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Application software

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A subclass of computer software that employs the capabilities of a computer directly and thouroughly to a task that the user wishes to perform.