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| This age is when people lived in worked on farms, exchanging good in towns. It lasted until two centuries ago. |
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| Two centuries ago when machine technology triggered a shift from farming to the industrial age |
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| Program that allows people control of numbers, manipulating them in ways that would be difficult or impossible otherwise. |
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| vertical sections of data |
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| The box representing the intersection of a row and column |
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| The cell's location in a spreadsheet denoted by a paring of numberical (rows) and alpha (columns) indicator. |
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| E-Book Reader, handheld device for reading digital publications |
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| Portable document format: enables documents of all types to be stored, viewed, or modified on any PC. |
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| Empty documents that can be easily adapted to specific user needs |
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| The use of a single ink colour or two to add interest |
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| includes color photos drawings and paintings |
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| technology that strives to make colours the same from monitor to monitor and printer to printer. |
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| The transistor (short for transfer resistance) is made up of semi-conductors and is a component used to control the amount of current or voltage or used for amplification/modulation or switching of an electronic signal. The transistor is the primary building block of all microchips, including your CPU, and is what creates the binary 0's and 1's your computer uses to communicate. |
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| A single Base database file (.odb file) may consist of many different parts, which are collectively called objects. |
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| Tables are the heart of a database, because they store the data you are organizing. Queries, forms, and reports are all designed to draw on the table’s data in some way. |
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| provide user-friendly ways of entering, viewing, and manipulating the data in your tables. |
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retrieve information you need from tables and can be used to summarize this information.
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| let you present your data in a format that is easy to read and print. |
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| Relational Database Management System (RDMS) |
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| programming that recognizes the connections (or relationships) between database tables. Using these relationships, Base can cross-reference between tables, drawing information from one table to expand on information in another. |
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| determines type of field such as if it will be text or a number |
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| (Database) field properties |
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| specific details about the field, such as its size or default (starting) value. |
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| the circuit board that contains a computers CPU |
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| Small Software applications |
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| The gap between information technology "haves" and "have notes" (between those that have access to technology and those who do not) |
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| Application Programs (or Applications) |
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| Software tools that trannsform general purpose computers (from smart hones to supercomptuers) into special purpose tools useful for meeting particular needs. |
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| Applications stored on the web so they; can be used by many programs |
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| A change in thinking that results in new ways of seeing the world |
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Now-a time where the industrial economy shifted to an information economy
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| abilty to connect many devices together |
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| An evolved form of networks |
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| messages that can travel from oner person to antoerh via the internet |
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| A vast tract of the internet accessible to just about anyone |
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| Programs like IE and Firefox that serve as naviagable windows into the Web |
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| pointers that allow users to follow an address online |
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| A computer that provides other coputers connected to the network with access to data, programs or other resources |
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| Room sized machines, very expensive |
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| A combination keyboard and screen with little local processing opwer that transfers info to and from mainfframe coputer or server. |
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| accept input from the outside world (keyboards, mice) |
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| send information to the outside world (monitor, printer, speakers) |
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| the computer's "brain", processes informatino, performs arithmetic calculations and makes basic decisions by comparing information values. |
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| anything that can be communicated, or "data" |
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| made up of discrete, countable unites (digits) so it can be subdivided |
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| binary digit ... the mslalest unit of information a coputer can process. It can have one of two values: 0 or 1 |
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| a system that denotes all numbers with combinantion so ftwo digits |
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| ASCII (Amercian Standard code for Information Interchange) |
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| most widely used code for programming |
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| a coding scheme that supports more than 100,000 unique characters |
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KB or K : 1,000 bytes
MB or meg: 1,000 KB or 1 million Bytes
GB or gig: 1,000 MB or 1 Billion Bytes
TB: 1 million MB
PB: 1024 TB or 1 quadrillion bytes |
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| refers to software ability to work with a CPU |
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| single chip that contains multiple CPU which run simluatanneously |
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Graphics processing unit (GPU)
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| handles the three d graphics rendering and other visual calucations to free up main CPU |
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| Servers that are grouped together |
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| special purpose ciruit bords that can go into expansion slots so users can customize their computer |
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| spaces on CPU that allow for expansionns |
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| Also called PC cards, they are small removable cards that contain memory, miniature peripherals, or additional ports. |
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| Future CPU that transmits infomration in light waves rather than in electrical pulses |
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| is technology that approaches the molecular or atomic level |
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| Small removeable cards that contain memory, minaiture peripherals or additional ports. (same as express cards) |
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| Computers based on the properties of atoms and their nuclei and the laws of quantum mechanics-we have not been able to do this..yet |
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| symmetric multiprocessing |
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| sames as parallet processing, wheith processors working side by each, on different parts of same task |
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| repetitive stress injuries |
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| tendonitiis and carpal tunnel sydrome, caused by long hours of typing |
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| placed keybaords at angles that are easier on arms and hands without changing the odrering of the keys |
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| battery operated keyboard connected with bluetooth |
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| small flat panel that is sensitive to light pressure, pointing devices |
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| tiny handle that sits in center of keyboard responding to the finger pressure by moving the pointer in teh direction you push it, like a minaiture embedded joystick |
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| looks like upside down mouse, it stays stationare while the user moves the large protruding ball to control pointer on screen |
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| a touch and pressure sensitive flat panel used twith stylus for drawing |
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| responds when user points to or touches different screen regions |
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| device that allows use of mul;ti finger or multi hand gestures to accomplish complex tasks easier. |
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| use refelcted light to determine location of pencil marks on standardized test answer sheets |
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| Magnetic inck character readers |
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| read thos odd shaped numbers printed with magnetic ink on checks |
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| Radio frequency identificaiton (RFID) readers |
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| uses radio waves to communicate with RFID tags |
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| Optiocal character recogntion (OCR) |
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| technology of recognizing individual characters on printed page so they can be stored and edited as text |
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| machine that uses light to copy an image from paper onto the cpu |
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