Vocabulary Flash cards Computer Science – Espinosa

Technical ? It is actually short for "Picture Element." These small little dots are what make up the images on computer displays, whether they are flat-screen (LCD) or tube (CRT) monitors. The screen is divided up into a matrix of thousands or even millions of them. Next – Answer

Pixel

Technical It refers to a networking technology that does not use cables that allows computers and other devices to communicate via a signal. Nearly all computers now have built-in ______ cards that allows users to search for and connect to routers without using a cable. Next Answer

Wi-Fi Stands for Wireless Fidelity

Technical Terms ? ** The study of how humans interact with manmade objects. Product designs that try to make people more productive and reduce the stress & fatigue on the body.

Ergonomics

Technical Terms ? ** Term can describe how many pixels a monitor can display or how fine a printer can print (dpi – dots – per inch) Answer next slide

Resolution

Technical ? Largest Network of computers in the world. No one owns it. Answer next slide

Internet

Technical ? a computer network limited to a small area such as an office building, university, or even a residential home. Answer next slide

LAN Local Area Network

Technical ? ____ is the ability of a computer to act like a human being. It has several applications, including software simulations and robotics and video games to act as another player Answer Next Slide

Artificial Intelligence

Technical ?? A legal means of protecting an author's work. It is a type of intellectual property that provides exclusive publication, distribution, and usage rights for the author. This means whatever content the author created cannot be used or published by anyone else without the consent of the author. For example, a blog on the Internet, your content is automatically covered by ___________. Answer next slide

URL Uniform Resource Locator – Example:

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”

??? *** 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

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.

?? ** 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