LIVITERA MIDTERMS Notes
LIVITERA MIDTERMS Notes
B. JOB OPPORTUNITIES
- Employers expect staff to have basic
ICT/computer skills
- Applies to job roles
❖ HISTORY OF COMPUTER
C. EDUCATION
● Earliest computers originally were computed
- ICT can impact student learning when
by HUMANS ( a job title)
teachers are digitally literate & understand
● These human computers were typically
how to integrate into curriculum
engaged in the calculation of mathematical
- Provides flexibility & availability of
expressions
learning materials
● Specialized and expensive, requiring years of
training in mathematics
D. SOCIALIZING
● FIRST USE of the word “COMPUTER”
- Vast adoption of finding partners/friends,
was recorded in 1613 —a person who carried
accessing info. from the news, reach ppl
out calculations, or computations (used until
across the world
mid-20th century)
➔ PASCALINE
- By Blaise Pascal (1642)
- Limited to + and –
- Too expensive
➔ TABULATING MACHINE
- By Herman Hollerith (1890)
- To assist in summarizing info. &
accounting
➔ STEPPED RECKONER - Like excel but manual
- By Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (1672)
- A machine that can +, –, x , ÷
automatically
➔ HARVARD MARK 1
➔ JACQUARD LOOM - By Howard H. Aiken (1943)
- By Joseph-Marie Jacquard (1881) - a.k.a IBM Automatic Sequence Controlled
- Automatic loom controlled by punched Calculator (ASCC)
cards - The first electro-mechanical computer
➔ Z1
- By Konrad Zuse in Germany (1936-1938)
➔ ARITHMOMETER
- The first programmable computer;
- By Thomas de Colmar (1820)
requiring punch tape reader
- First reliable, useful, mass–produced, &
successful calculating machine
- Performs the 4 basic math functions
➔ ATANASOFF-BERRY COMPUTER
- By Prof. John Atanasoff & grad. student
➔ DIFFERENCE ENGINE & Clifford Berry (1939-1942)
ANALYTICAL ENGINE - The first electronic digital computing
- By Charles Babbage (1822 & 1834) device
- Automatic, mechanical calculator to tabulate
polynomial functions
- The first mechanical computer, bigger
than a human
➔ ENIAC BASIC COMPUTING PERIODS
- By John Presper Eckert & John Mauchly A. PREMECHANICAL (3000 BC & 1450 AD)
(1946) - “Earliest Age” of IT
- a.k.a Electronic Numerical Integrator and - Early alphabets were developed (e.g.
Computer Phoenician alphabet)
- The first electronic general-purpose - Pens & papers, first books & libraries were
computer developed
- Around 100 A.D. —the first 1-9 system
was created by Indians
- 875 A.D. (775 yrs. later) —the number 0
was invented
- Calculator was the very first sign of info.
➔ UNIVAC 1 processor (abacus)
- By John Presper Eckert & John Mauchly
- a.k.a UNIVersal Automatic Computer 1 B. MECHANICAL (1450-1840)
- The first commercial computer - Technologies like Slide Rule were invented
- Pascaline was a very popular mechanical
computer (by Blaise Pascal)
- Charles Babbage developed engines to
tabulate polynomial equations
➔ EDVAC
C. ELECTROMECHANICAL (1840-1940)
- By Von Neumann (1952)
- The beginnings of telecommunications
- a.k.a Electronic Discrete Variable
- Telegraph —created in 1800s
Automatic Computer
- Morse Code —Samuel Morse in 1835
- The first stored program computer; has a
- Telephone —Alexander Graham Bell
memory to hold stored program & data
(1876)
- First radio —Guglielmo Marconi (1894)
- Mark 1 —first large-scale automatic
digital-computer in the U.S. using punch
cards around 1940 (8 ft. high, 50 ft. long, 2
ft. wide, 5 tons)
★ FOURTH GENERATION
- MICROPROCESSOR —even smaller chips ● WEB 2.0 (Read-Write Interactive Web)
- Formed networks, which developed Internet - New gen. of web services & apps;
- GUIs (Graphical User Interface), handheld increasing emphasis on human collabs
devices like mouse - Gives the user to control their data
- user-generated content (not the company)
★ FIFTH GENERATION like blogs
- ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE (AI), still - DYNAMIC PAGE —user can create/edit
developing content, can comment, create an account
- Devices that responds to natural language, Examples:
capable of self-learning & self-organizing - Social Networks (social media) like FB,
- Voice recognitions IG, twt, LinkedIn, Google+, pinterest,
tumblr
APPLICATION OF ICT in Daily Lives - Blogs —discussion/informational website
with discrete, diary-style entries like
- Business - Government
Wordpress, Blogger, and Tumblr
- Education - Marketing
- Wikis —hypertext publication
- Healthcare - Science
collaboratively edited/managed by the
- Retail & Trade - Publishing
audience like wikipedia, wikiversity,
- Arts & - Communication
wikibooks, wiktionary, etc.
Entertainment - Transportation
- Video Sharing Sites —lets ppl
- Banking & - Work from home
upload/share video clips with the public
Finance - Social & Romance
like YouTube, FB, Flickr, Veoh, etc.
- Navigation - Security &
KEY FEATURES:
- Military Surveillance
○ Folksonomy – categorize & arrange info.
- Bookings - Robotics
using chosen keywords (e.g. tags, #)
- Weather forecast
○ Rich User Interface – dynamic content
responsive to user’s input
○ User Participation – the owner isn’t the ★ HISTORY OF INTERNET
only one who is able to put content ● JAN. 2, 1969
○ Long Tail – on demand services instead - ARPA [Advance Research Project Agency]
of one-time purchase - “Concept” —no server, but equal
importance to every computer in the
● WEB 3.0 (Read-Write Intelligent Web) network
- Same principle w/ 2.0: a two-way
● 1982
interaction
- The word “internet” started
- Personalized contents for you
- SEMANTIC WEB —framework that ● 1986
allows data to be shared & refused to - First “free net” created in Case Western
deliver content targeting the user Reserve University (Cleveland, Ohio)
3. PHARMING
- Means to point you to a malicious/fake
website by REDIRECTING the legit URL
- May look real to make you enter personal
info.
4. PHISHING
- Fake emails, texts, websites to look
authentic; a.k.a “spoofing”
- To steal personal/financial info.
5. RANSOMWARE
- Demands payment to access your
computer
2 Types:
a. Lock Screen Ransomware – displays
image that prevents you from accessing
computer
b. Encryption Ransomware – files from
USB, flash drive, cloud storage preventing
you to open them
6. SPAM
- Mass distribution of unsolicited texts, ads
- Annoying unwanted junk mails/texts
8. TROJAN HORSE
- Malicious program that DISGUISES as
legitimate program
- Can watch you through webcam & record
sensitive personal info