MCS 2020 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: 18 Months, Information Revolution, Holdall
13 Oct 2016
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Pbl tips: if you suggest that someone adopts a new tech, you need to account for the existing programs and how you will integrate those. Mainframes 1952-present: rst time things went digital, rst digital computers large, room-size devices, mainly used by business and government, 1st, 2nd, and 3rd generation (started to bring personal computers into use) Microcomputers 1975-present: major advancement in size, rate of adaption, integrated circuits, small microprocessors. Monday, october 3, 2016: monitors, keyboards, portable oppy disks, software. Mobile and tablet computing 1990s-present: the highly publicized y2k problem / www popularity, lower cost for mobile technology, big societal changes with wide spread adoption. Cloud computing 2010-present: cloud computing promises exible, secure and scalable low xed cost computing that is available anywhere, anytime and on any device (ubiquity-ability to access information at anytime, anywhere with any device) Roles of the technical details : dns, ip who controls these, big crime, big politics, big business.
