ITM 407 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Electronic Billing, Information Privacy, Database

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Information Technology Management
• Course: ITM 407
• Professor: Candace Grant

Document Summary

Ethics is the process of determining how moral outcomes can be achieved. Authors use the term compute ethics to determine the field that examines moral issues reflecting to computers and information technology. Computer ethics might also suggest a field of study that is concerned with ethical issues affecting computer professionals. We should study computer ethics because doing so will make sure more responsible professionals and will teach us how to avoid computer abuse. Wide range of computing and communication devices, capable of accepting and storing information, performing mathematical calculations, retrieving, displaying and sending information. Technologies are not limited to hand held devices such as pda"s, cell phones, and personal computers. Local area network (lans) and wide area network (wans) are the most common and well-known examples of cyber-technology. Ict is capably of processing inputs or information to produce outputs or results. Ict is able to store large amount of data.