Exploring Information and Software Technology,9780521692632

Exploring Information and Software Technology

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Edition: 4th
ISBN13: 9780521692632
ISBN10: 0521692636
Format: Multimedia
Pub. Date: 2007-07-01
Publisher(s): Cambridge University Press
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Summary

Exploring Information and Software Technology

Table of Contents

Introduction
Introduction to the core and project development
Design#$ produce and evaluate projects
Producing a solution
People#$ information and software technology
Issues in project development
Research on past#$ current and emerging technologies
Design an information system
Artificial intelligence#$ simulation and modeling
Areas of artificial intelligence
Requirements of artificial intelligence
Modelling and simulations
Advantages and limitations of models and simulations
Research the content for a knowledge base
Design#$ produce and evaluate spreadsheets for modelling and simulation
Authoring and multimedia
Multimedia products
Data types
Display hardware used by multimedia
Authoring software
Storyboarding
Development of a multimedia product using an authoring system
Database design
Database development
Collecting#$ organizing and storing data
Methods of processing and analysing data
Expert systems
Database development
Querying a relational database
Digital Media
The purpose of Digital media
Types of digital media products
Data storage and function
Manipulation techniques
Digitisation process of data types
Creating a simple animation
Desktop
The internet and website development: The history of the internet
Use of the internet
Internet software
The world wide web
Website development
Browsers and search engines on the Internet
Using HTML as an authoring tool
Networking systems: Protocols
Data transmission
Components of networks
Network topologies
Network operating systems
Writing a technical manual for network use
Designing a network
Robotics and automated systems: Robots and Robotics
The purpose#$ use and function of robots
Storage and processing devices
Automated control
Design a robot
Animated presentation on Robotics
Algorithms: Software systems
Basic programming concepts
Algorithms
Programming languages
Project development
Programming off-the-shelf software
Programming in a GUI environment
Glossary
Index
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