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James R. Messenger (1982)

Information Age proposed by?

Information Age

Began in the late 20th Century with the rise of interconnected computer and telecommunications

Richard Wurman (1980’s)

Coined “Information Anxiety”

Computer

An electronic device that stores and processes data (Information)

Personal Computer

First known as microcomputers since they were a complete computer but built on a smaller scale than enormous systems operated by most businesses. It is also single user instrument.

Desktop Computer

A stationary computer typically set up in one spot.

Laptops

Portable computers that integrate desktop essentials into a battery-powered, book-sized package. Often called notebooks

Personal Digital Assistants

Small, lightweight devices without keyboards, relying on touch screens for input.

Server

A computer designed to provide network services to other computers, with powerful processors, large memory, and storage.

Mainframes

Large, powerful systems used by big firms for processing millions of transactions daily, often filling entire rooms. The term is now replaced by "enterprise server.”

Wearable Computers

Compact devices integrated into items like phones and watches, performing common applications like databases, email, and scheduling.

Claude E. Shannon

Father of the Information Theory. He laid groundwork for the internet, proposing that information can be coded as ones and zeros.

Department of Defense

Internet was developed in the 1970’s by the?

Bioinformatics

The use of computational and statistical techniques to analyze biological data.

Proteomics, Gene finding, Drug design and discovery, and Wastewater treatment

Examples of bioinformatics?

BLAST

is an algorithm and program for comparing primary biological sequence information, such as the amino-acid sequences of proteins or the nucleotides of DNA and/or RNA sequences.

Basic Local Alignment Search Tool

BLAST Meaning?

Annotator

An interactive gnome analysis tool

GeneFinder

Tool identifying coding regions and splice sites