chapter 3 lesson 1 inforamation age

Information Age

is defined as a "period starting in the last quarter of the 20th century

Information Age

the Digital Age and the New Media Age

James R. Messenger

proposed the Theory of the Information Age in 1982

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ENIAC, first viable design for a digital computer

Information Anxiety

During the 1980s, real angst set in. Richard Wurman called it.

Computer

are among the most important contributions of advances in the Information Age to society.

Personal Computer (PC)

It is a single-user instrument. PCs were first known as microcomputers

Desktop Computer

It is described as a PC that is not designed for portability

Laptops

These are portable computers that integrate the essentials of a desktop computer battery-powered package.

Personal Digital Assistants (PDAs)

These are tightly integrated computers that usually have no keyboards

Server

It refers to a computer that has been improved to provide network services to other computers.

Mainframes

These are huge computer systems that can fill an entire room.

Wearable Computers

are typically found in large enterprises, financial institutions, government agencies, and other organizations

Shannon

an American Mathematician who was considered as the "Father of Information Theory."

Internet

is a worldwide system of interconnected networks developed during the 1970s

Sergey Brin and Larry Page

directors of a Stanford research project

Google

is now the world's most popular search engine

Electronic mail

was a suitable way to send a message to fellow workers

Bioinformatics

is the application of information technology to store, organize, and analyze vast amounts of biological data