Chapter 2 - Computer Hardware - Jia
docking station
Internet appliance
semiconductor (it says, “a device that packs hundreds of transistors into a single integrated circuit on a tiny silicon chip”)
terminal (it says “combination keyboard and screen that transfers information to and from a mainframe computer.”)
supercomputer/workstation/mainframe computer
Chapter 3 - Storage Devices / Media - Jia
magnetic tape
tape drive
Chapter 4 - Software / Intellectual Property - Jia, Gaius
.NET
agents
copyrighted software
documentation
patent (it says, “a type of law that protects mechanical inventions.”)
Chapter 5 - Productivity - Jia, Campbell, Gaius
Project Management
Spreadsheets, Modeling and Simulation
agents
automatic footnoting
bot
feedback loop
source document
spelling checker (batch or interactive)
tax preparation software
Chapter 6 - Media / Publishing - Jia
point size
morph
PostScript
page-description language
Chapter 7 - Database stuff - TaiSheng, Gaius, Kevin
distributed database
object-oriented database
real time
Chapter 8 - Network stuff- TaiSheng, Amy, Campbell, Jia
bridges
Ethernet
network license
network operating system (NOS)
newsgroups
remote access
routers
TCP/IP
terminal emulation software
Chapter 9 - Internet - Jia
application server
application service provider (ASP)
Chapter 10 - Security - Jia
autonomous systems
Chapter 12 - Information Systems in Business - Jia
action document
critical path method (CPM)
Chapter 14 - Systems Design and Development - Jia
computer-aided systems engineering (CASE)
data dictionary
end-user development
information system
prototyping
Chapter 15 - Artificial Intelligence - Jia
heuristic (it says “a rule of thumb”)
Social Issues - Vivek
Psychological and physical considerations
Digital policing
Government control and use of information
Military
Personal and public communications
project management and Project
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