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| Who was instrumental in designing the first mechanical computer that would eventually become the modern day computer? |
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| What machine was used to crack Nazi military codes? |
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| What invention, developed in 1948, replaced vacuum tubes? |
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| What is the name of the rule or law that predicited the power of silicon chips (the CPU) would double about every 18 months? |
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| What company developed the microprocessor? |
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| Where is Silicon Valley located? |
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| Computers that once occupied full rooms, but are now approx. the size of a refrigerator, are used by large organizations and known as? |
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| What are the attributes of supercomputers? |
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| faster at calculation-intensive work, constructed out of thousands of microprocessors |
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| What are the attributes of workstations? |
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| massive computing power, use of interactive applications |
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| What is the fastest growing segment of the PC market? |
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| Personal digital assistant |
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| What are programs such as Internet Explorer that serve a navigable windows into the web called? |
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| Events and ideas that radically change the way people work, live, and think is known as...? |
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| The software tools that enable a user to interact with a computer for specific purposes are known as? |
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| When a student posts a clip from a recent movie on her Web site, what is the ethical issue involved? |
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| What are computer chips embedded within human bodies known as? |
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| What are hardware components? |
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| physical parts of the computer system |
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| What component is known as the "brain" of the computer? |
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| What is another name for CPU? |
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| What is RAM also known as? |
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| What is the smallest unit of information a computer can process and understand? |
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| A byte can represent any number between 0 and ? |
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| what is 1024 bytes known as? |
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| What is 1,000 megabytes known as? |
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| the circuit board that contains a computers CPU |
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| open-source software. anyone can use it or sell it as long as it remains open to improvement |
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| What is it known as when two processors are employed in a computer? |
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| What is it known as when multiple CPUs are put on one chip? |
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| What popular CPU family includes Celeron, Centrino, and Xeon? |
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| Information stored in RAM is considered volatile, which means what? |
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it is referred to as volatile memory becuase information stored there is not held permanently |
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| What are external devices such as printers, keyboards, and modems are known as? |
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| What was the early operating system developed by Microsoft? |
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| What are RSI's and what causes them? |
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Repetitive Strain Injury.
This is caused by working too fast without breaks, and holding your muscled in the same position for a long time |
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| What is the wheel on a mouse used to do? |
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| What are bar-code readers used to read? |
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| uses light to read universal product codes and inventory codes |
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| What is OCR and what is it used for? |
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Optical character recognition.
software that locates and identifies printed characters embedded in images |
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| used to create a digital representation of a printed document or photo |
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| can interpret voice data into words understood by a computer |
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| Speech recognition software |
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| the science of creating work environments that are safe and efficient for workers |
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| What are attributes of how data is written and read from magnetic tape |
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magnetizes binary numbers onto the tape, whic is easily read |
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| a type of erasable, realiable, and compact memory that is a viable alternative to disk storage. |
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| when you can remove and replace devices without turning off your computer |
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| a high speed connection developed by Apple |
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