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Chapter 1
OverviewThe Foundation for Your
Future
© The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc., 2000
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Overview
• Users and professionals
• Computer literate and computer competent
• Information systems
• Hardware
• Software
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Overview (continued)
• Computer systems
• Computer development
• Connectivity
• Interactivity
• Digital convergence
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Users
• Be ready for the job market
• Use computers for work and personal tasks
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Differentiation• Computer Professionals
– expertise and/or a minimum of a two-year technical degree
– industry uses many names• programmer, engineer, systems analyst
• network and database administrators
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Computer Literate vs. Competent
• Computer literacy– understanding what a computer is and what
it can do
• Computer competency– using skills to meet information needs and
improve productivity
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Competency
• Skill mastery covered:– terms– functions– uses
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Computer Information Systems
• Hardware• Software• Data and information• People• Procedures• Communications
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Information and Knowledge
• Information– data organized into useful information
• Knowledge– application of reasoned analysis of information
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People
• Most important component of computer system
• Follow procedures– using documentation, reference guides, and
user guides– guides are primarily available as electronic help
files and Internet help desks
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Digital and Analog Systems
• Digital based on electronic circuitry– 1s and 0s, or on and off– each 1 or 0 is called a bit; or binary digit– Computers use digital data representation
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Analog Systems
• Analog– continuously variable values, along a range, such
as temperature and pressure values– traditional analog recording devices are humidity
recorders, mercury thermometers, and pressure gauges
– standard telephone lines transmit analog signals
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Connectivity • Analog modems
– most home systems
• Digital modems – cable and digital subscriber service technology
use digital modems for much faster communications, but this technology is not universally available
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Computer Hardware
• 5 categories– input
– processing and memory
– output
– storage
– communications
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Input
• Keyboard• Mouse• Scanner• Microphone
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Processing and Memory
• Motherboard• CPU• Memory
– many types of RAM
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Output Hardware
• Hardcopy output– graphics– letters
• Softcopy output– monitor– audio
• music from MP3 for example
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Secondary Storage Hardware
• Permanent or nonvolatile– magnetic disks: disk cartridges,
hard drives, floppy disks– optical storage (optical disks)– tape
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Communications Hardware
• Facilitate networks– modems– hubs and other components of a network
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Computer Software
• System software– communication with
hardware– resource management– facilitates communication
among application programs
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Computer Software
• Applications software– benefits or assists the user
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Types of Computers
• Supercomputers
• Mainframe computers
• Workstations
• Microcomputers
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Types of Computers (continued)• Microcontrollers
– embedded or dedicated computers: from calculators to automobiles
• Server– network– Web
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Computer Generations
• First (1944 to1958)– ENIAC and UNIVAC
• Second (1959 to1963)– IBM 1401 with 1402 card read/punch
• Third generation (1964 to 1970)– DEC PDP-8– Data General NOVA– IBM 360
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Computer Generations (continued)
• Fourth generation (1971 to now)– dominated by the LSI (large-scale integrated
circuits) and the VLSI (very-large-scale integrated circuits)
– word processing, spreadsheets, database, and graphic programs became readily available
– Cray-1 supercomputer– DEC VAX 11/780
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Information Explosion
• Increased processing power
• More information more quickly
• More paper in the computer era than before it!
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Data Overload?
• Information does not produce knowledge– knowledge implies synthesis of that
information– therefore, knowledge must be useful: complete,
accurate, relevant, and timely (CART)
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Connectivity
• Connecting devices for communication• voice, data, multimedia
– foundation for information age
• E-mail– send and receive messages over a local area
network or a large network, including the Internet
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Connectivity (continued)
• Databases– for research and job prospects
• Telecommuting– Working at home or on the road– Communicating with the office through phone,
fax, and/or computer• On-line shopping and E-commerce
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Databases
• Electronically stored data
• Reference and other libraries of information databases are extensive through connectivity, both specialized and generalized on the Internet
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Online Services
• America Online (AOL)
• Microsoft Network (MSN)• CompuServe interactive services
(CompuServe)
• Prodigy Internet (Prodigy)
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Portals and the World Wide Web
• Online service providers– Often customize setup disks or CDs to show
their home page as the first page– Hence, the term portal, the entry way to the
Internet
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Browsers
• Microsoft Internet Explorer and Netscape Navigator– two dominant Web browsers– also serve as portals through their home page
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Interactivity
• Ability to respond immediately and modify processes
• Includes multimedia– text, graphics, animation, video,
music, voice
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Interactive Devices
• Multimedia computers
• Internet appliances– TV set-top control boxes,
also called smart boxes
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Digital Convergence
• Merger of devices, media, and services– computers– communications– consumer electronics– entertainment– mass media
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Technological Convergence
• Communications– same information gained in potentially multiple
ways• satellite
• films
• recordings
• radio
• telephones
• television
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