STS QUIZ INFORMATION AGE

• Computer hardware includes physical components such as processors, memory, storage devices, input/output devices, and networking equipment.
• Information age defined as - period starting in the last quarter of 20th century.
• James R. Messenger- the information age is true new age based upon interconnection of computers via telecommunications.
• Claude Shannon- father of information age and invented the mathematical theory of communication.
• 3000 BC- Cuneiform have 600 to 1000 characters impressed of clay to spell words by dividing them up into signs.
• 2900- hieroglyphics
• 1300 Bc- scapulae and tortoise shells
• 500 BC- PAPYRUS SHEET
• Personal computer- single user instrument
• Laptop- portable computers that integrates the essential of desktop computer
• Personal digital assistant- tightly integrated computers that usually have no keyboards but rely on touchscreen.
• Server- a computer that has been improved to provide network devices to other computers.
• Mainframe- huge computer system that can be fill an entire room.
• Wearable computer- involve material that is usually integrated into cellphones, watches and other small objects.
• World Wide web- several historian trace the origin of the internet to Claude E.Shannon.
• Desktop Computer- PC that is not designed for portability.
• Bioinformatics- is an interdisciplinary field that combines biology computers, science, mathematics and statistics.
• Swiss prot protein sequence database- initiated in 1986.
• Protein sequences- 70,000
• Model organism- 50,000
• Computers and software tools- used for generating these data bases.
• BLAST- used for comparing sequences.
• Megalethoscope- used to view transculent.
• 1755- Samuel johnson- a dictionary of english language.
• Papyrus sheet- used by ancient style of chinese.
• 1802- invention of carbon arc lamp.
• Tele- means distant
• Graphein- write.
• Hyperlink- software system allowing extensive cross.
• 1906- Lee de forest- Audion
• Samuel F.B morse- telegraph
• 1939- the dedication of the RICA PAVILION.
• 1946- ENIAC
• 1960-Library of Congress developed LC marc( machine readable code)
• 1972- reflective ortical videoisc system.
• Computers- are among the most important contributions of advances in the information age of society.