Intro to MIS MGMT 661 Management Information Systems Summer Dannelly 1 st Meeting

Tonight's Agenda 1) Syllabus course objectives graded work 2) History and Future of Computing 3) IS in Business chapters 1 and 2

What do you know? What is a CRM? Is IT moving to "The Cloud?" What is "net neutrality"? Is telecommuting an effective business practice? Does a customer have a legal right to privacy?

Dannelly's Short History of Computing

Charles Babbage ( ) Math Tables Problem Difference Engine and Analytical Engines ◦ Abilities  add  subtract  loop  conditional branch  etc… ◦ instructions and data on punched cards

Harvard Mark 1 mechanical completed in 1943 used to compute artillery tables instructions on paper tape storage = 72 registers

Digital Electronics 101 circuits are a series of "gates" or switches gates can perform AND, OR, NOT, etc Example - Half Adder: AND XOR Apple's iPad uses the A4 system chip with 177 million transistors

First Generation based on vacuum tubes ENIAC ◦ Univ of Pennsylvania ◦ base 10, not binary ◦ programmed via wires UNIVAC ◦ 1951 ◦ first commercial machine

Second Generation based on transistors FORTRAN and COBOL This IBM 1301 Disk Storage Unit held 2.8 MB of data. Lease = $2100 per month The IBM 1401 Mainframe leased for about $2500 per month in 1960.

Third Generation based on Integrated Circuits mainframes and minicomputers ◦ IBM 360  1964  equally suited for business or science  from 8K to 8M of memory

Fourth Generation based on VLSI microcomputers ◦ IBM PC released in 1981

Fifth Generation has not officially happened yet maybe it was the internet-ization of every device maybe it was mobile-ization of every device, thanks to Lithium-Ion batteries allowing smaller devices

Computers Sold Annually

Moore's Law

Stages of a New Technology becoming Viable 1. Critical Price 2. Critical Mass 3. Displacement of Another Technology 4. Nearly Free Example : Voice Over IP 1.high speed internet connection cost less $ 2.over 20% of households get high speed 3.international calls made over internet 4.talking to someone in India near free via Skype

Near Future: The Cloud Cloud computing refers to the on-demand provision of computational resources (data, software) via a computer network, rather than from a local computer. --

Possible Future : Quantum Computing Classical Mechanics an object in motion stays in motion blah blah Quantum Mechanics a particle can be in two places at once two particles can be "entangled" regardless of distance or time there are parallel universes Quantum Computer based on Qubits can be 1, or 0, or 1 and 0 at the same time computational complexity is no longer relevant data transfer would be instant very good at decoding encrypted messages Oxford has an 8 qubit computer

So what? What trends do you see in that history? 1. smaller, cheaper, more smart devices used for more things 2. moving from Mainframes to PCs to Cloud So what does that mean for the future? ◦ consumers? ◦ businesses?  as of May 2010, Apple is worth more than Microsoft

Information Systems in Business (Chapters 1 and 2) After the Break