IST 195 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Khan Academy, Video Content Analysis, Massive Open Online Course
5 May 2018
School
Department
Course
Professor
Week 1:
How Information Technology Applies To Your Carrier:
-Education (MOOC)
● Khan Academy, edX, Ursera
-Government
● Facebook likes
○ Trump- 10.1
○ Clinton- 5.3
-Health & IT
-Military
● Drones
● Robots
● Heat Sensors
● Safer gear
● Stronger vehicles
-Retail & IT Showrooming
-Law & IT
● Video survaillace
● Video Analytics (real time reporting)
● Product Analytics (where will crimes occur, when, to whom)
● Biometrics
-Entertainment & IT
-Finance & IT
-Sports & IT
Week 2:
A Bit of Computing History
-1956- IBM Supercomputer
-5MB of storage
-Cost: $160,000
Moore’s Law: Observation made in 1956 that the number of transistors on an integrated circuit
will double every 24 months and cost per transistor decreases
Many Terms- Different Meanings
● PC- personal computer. MACs, Dell
● Server-a computer or computer program that manages access to a centralized
resource or service in a network
○ Web Servers
○ Mail Servers
○ File Servers
○ Game Servers
○ Media Server
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