MCS 2020 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Central Processing Unit, Year 2000 Problem, Cloud Computing

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Marketing and Consumer Studies
• Course: MCS 2020
• Professor: Lianne Foti

Document Summary

The information revolution: our tendency to evaluate the information revolution through the lens of technology, when in fact it may have nothing to do with technology at all. The information technology principles consist of: price and performance advances, small is powerful, the network is the thing. The early computers were developed from 1939-1952: eniac: was a young group of woman who worked during ww2 to program. Mainframes (1952) were the first digital computers that were used in business and government. Microcomputers (1975) were integrated circuits with small microprocessors with a monitor, keyboard and software. Networking personal computers (1985) consisted of lan (local area networks) and wan (wide area networks) Mobile a(cid:374)d ta(cid:271)let (cid:272)o(cid:373)puti(cid:374)g (cid:894)late (cid:1005)99(cid:1004)"s(cid:895) the highly pu(cid:271)li(cid:272)ized y(cid:1006)k pro(cid:271)le(cid:373) Cloud computing (2010): cloud computing promises flexible, secure and scalable low cost computing that is available anywhere (ubiquity) Hardware consists of electronic components and related gadgetry, process, output and store data according to instructions encoded in computer programs and software.