FINALS

Hilbert Pastrana

Instructor: Mr.Dennis Pua

BASICONT

Trends & Issues

• Web technology
• Artificial Intelligence
• Commerce
• Education
• Careers & professional Outlook
• Health Issues
• Information ethics

Web Technology

What are the differences between the Web and the Internet?

Internet

A communication system

Intended to carry computers data, similar to telephone network which is intended to carry conversations

Carries a various data, including e-mail videoconference, instant messages & contents of Web pages

Web

ü An abstract space information. On the net you find computers on the web: you find documents, sounds, videos, and information. On the ne, the connections are cables between computers: on web. Connections are hypertext links.

Hypertext: that could store literally document link them according to logical relationships and permit readers to comment & annotate what they read.

HTML: (Hypertext Make-up Language) refers to plain text, or ASCII, document with embedded HTML, tags.

Browser: a web client software which is use to surf the web.

Artificial Intelligence

Turing test: designed to satisfactorily identify if the machine is intelligent

To pass the test, the machine should posses the ff:

Natural language processing to enable it to communicate successfully

Machine learning to adopt to new circumstances & to detect & extrapolate patterns

Computer vision to perceive objects

Robotics to move about

E-Commerce

Commerce: the exchange of goods and services, usually for money.

Different roles played in E-Commerce

Buyers- those people with money who want to purchase goods or services

Sellers- those people who offer goods & services to buyers

Producers- who create the products & service that sellers offer to buyers.

Electronic Commerce- also known as E-Commerce

Any form of business transaction in which the parties interact electronically rather than physical exchanges.

Education

Computers & the internet can help in making lessons customized and student centered.

Children are outpacing adults on the technology track.

Education plays the major role in guiding the youth to make of the best of the computer technology

Careers & Professional Outlook

Computer literacy is an advantages on the most jobs nowadays

Management supports the use of technology to improve productivity which in many instances means the elimination of jobs.

Change that involves new and complex technologies are stressful to order & less educated workers.

Health Issues

Essential Implications for Productivity, Efficiency, Safety &Heath in Working Setting

Designing equipment & work arrangements to improves working postures & ease the load of the body

Information design, to make the interpretation & use of handbooks, sign, & displays easier & less error-prone.

Designing working environments, including lighting & heating, to suit the needs of the users & the tasks performed.

Designing tasks & jobs so that they are effective & take account of human needs such as rests breaks & sensible shift patterns.

Equipment Checklists

Accessories (As need)

• Foot rest for users whose feet don’t rest on the floor
• Adjustable keyboard tray, if table is too high
• Wrist rest that is padded, movable, same height as keyboard home row
• Telephone headset
• Glare screen with grounding wire
• Lumber support cushion, if chair doesn’t support lower back

Buying Tips

ü Try equipment out before purchasing whenever possible

Chair

Table

Computer Terminal

Information Ethics

Ethics- rules and standards governing the conduct of an individual with others

Business Ethics- codes of morals of a particular professions

The standards of conducts of a given profession

Information Ethics-defined as arrangements among information system professionals to do right & to avoid wrong in their work.

What information Ethics are not:

Not Law

Not Security

Not Common sense

Not relative

Not conscience

Information System (IS) Attributes

Location

Time

Separation of Act From consequences

Individual power

Privacy- right of people not to reveal information about them selves

- The right to keep information, such as personal e-mail messages, medical histories, & financial information from getting into wrong hands.

Computer Crime

Could reasonably a wide variety of criminal offenses, activities or issues

• Can be separated into two categories
• :Crime facilitated by a computers
• Crimes where the computers is the target.

Computer Security Issues

• Bugs or misconfiguration problems that allow an authorized remote to user.
• Browser-slide risks

Service Theft

• Some people are using thier employer's computer time to play games.
• The biggest abuse is probably wasting time with electronic mail and the internet.

Data Alteration/Theft

• The international use of illegal and destructive programs to alter or destroy data is as much a crime as destroying tangible goods.
• Most common of these types of programs are viruses and worm.

Viruses-program that attached itself to other programs.
Worm-funchtion as an independent program, replicating its own program files until its interrupts the operation of the network and computer system.
Malicious Access-Crimes involving illegal system access and use of computer services are a concerned to both
government and business.
Hacker- a person who enjoys computer technology and spends time learning and using computer systems.