Vocabulary Flash cards Computer Science – Espinosa

Acronym Hardware ? This hardware component is the The most important part of the computer that controls the power & overall performance Intel is the world wide industry leader of this hardware component Brain of the computer Answer please

CPU CPU – central processing unit

acronym ? acronym ? It is the address of a specific Web site or file on the Internet.

URL Uniform Resource Locator – Example:

Acronyms or File Format ? It is a popular compressed audio file format that helped popularize digital music downloads beginning in the late 1990s. Because of their small size and good fidelity, they have become a popular way to store music files on both computers and portable devices like the iPod.

MP3 Stands for "MPEG-1 Audio Layer-3."

Acronyms ? It is the most common type of computer port used in today's computers. It can be used to connect keyboards, mice, game controllers, printers, scanners, digital cameras, and removable media drives, just to name a few.

USB Universal Serial Bus

Acronyms ? Refers to software that accurately represents the final output during the development phase. Example, Microsoft Word & Apple Pages are both this type of editors, because they include page layout modes that accurately display what the documents will look when printed.

WYSIWYG What you see is what you get Pronounced “wihzeewig”

People ? They offered the first popular operating system that first ran on the IBM personal computers (DOS) and eventually Windows. They also created the most often used business suite of software applications such as Word, Excel, PowerPoint etc. Co-founders of Microsoft Answer Please

Bill Gates & Paul Allen

People ? Back in the early 1980s - they started the PC Revolution Co-creators of the first Apple computers Next Answer

Steve Jobs & Steve Wozniak

Acronyms ? An acronym that implies a list of often asked questions Many web sites have a web page devoted to answering these questions Answer next slide

FAQ Frequently Asked Questions

??? *** Home to the world’s largest technology corporations. Special name given to a location – southern part of San Francisco Bay area to San Jose California. Goes through Mountain View & Palo Alto near Stanford Univ. Called this because originally this region had the largest number of chip makers. (Chips are made of silicon because silicon conducts electricity well). Answer next slide

Silicon Valley Home to Google, Pixar, Apple, ebay, Facebook, Etc.

People ? ** invented the World Wide Web www - an Internet-based hypermedia initiative for global information sharing while at CERN, the European Particle Physics Laboratory in 1989 created the addresses known as URL’s created the language HTML runs the W3C consortium runs the W3C consortium Answer next slide

Tim Berners-Lee

Internet ? ** A process that involves outsourcing tasks to a distributed group of people. This process can occur both online and offline and the difference between this activity and ordinary outsourcing is that a task or problem is outsourced to an undefined public rather than a specific body. Answer next slide

Crowd Sourcing

?? ** Under the ________ doctrine of the U.S. copyright statute, it is permissible to use limited portions of a work including quotes, for purposes such as commentary, criticism, news reporting, and scholarly reports Answer next slide

Fair Use Fair Use is sometimes hard to define For example showing short clips on movies to do movie reviews is fair; But it is not fair to show the part that gives away a mystery.

?? ** As a general matter, copyright _________occurs when a copyrighted work is reproduced, distributed, performed, publicly displayed, or made into a derivative work without the permission of the copyright owner. Answer next slide

infringement

People ?? ** Fathers of the Internet – They won a Presidential Medal of freedom award in 2005 for their development of the Internet which laid the foundation for a global transformationof communication, commerce, and entertainment. Answer next slide

Vint Cert & Bob Kahn They wrote TCP/IP the language of the Internet The Internet sends packets of data across the Internet.

?? ** A work of authorship is in the ___________ if it is no longer under copyright protection or if it failed to meet the requirements for copyright protection. These works may be used freely without the permission of the former copyright owner.

Public Domain

?? ** Someone born in a world without computers everywhere. These people did not grow up with digital cameras, mobile devices, home computers etc. Answer next slide

Digital Immigrant

??? *** A set of moral principles that govern the behavior of a group or individual as it relates to computer use. Some common issues of ________ include intellectual property rights (such as copyrighted electronic content), privacy concerns, and how computers affect society. Answer next slide

Computer Ethics

?? *** Someone born into a world where computer gadgets were everywhere – home, work, schools, shopping, etc. Computers are common place and just a part of their lives. Answer next slide

Digital Native