CIS 1200 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Digital Divide, Personal Shopper, Data Mining

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Computing and Information Science
• Course: CIS 1200
• Professor: John Saville

Document Summary

As a savvy computer owner you will be able to: In a digital home, you can control home systems. A basic set of digital home components includes: media computer with a tv tuner; a radio tuner; media software; a blu-ray, dvd and/or cd player and/or recorder; and a network adapter. It would also require access to a network, a digital tv, a digital media adapter and universal remote. Information technology (it) is the set of techniques used in information handling and retrieving info automatically: includes computers and telecommunications. Some careers that are computer involved: business retail, shipping, arts, education, medicine, law enforcement, legal system, agriculture, sciences. Business around the world is conducted on computers. Info is stored in databases; businesses use data mining to make sense of all the data. Personal shopper systems retail systems that show shoppers info such as prices, specials and total purchase price. Some business use package tracking with wireless bluetooth technology.