CIS 1200 Study Guide - Final Guide: Liquid-Crystal Display, Laptop, Message Transfer Agent

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Computing and Information Science
• Course: CIS 1200
• Professor: John Saville

Document Summary

As a savvy computer owner you will be able to: Maintain your computer data mining: to make meaning of all that data, businesses use a process. Personal shopper systems: some stores provide retail systems. Bluetooth technology: some businesses use package tracking with wireless bluetooth technology. digital divide: the discrepancy between the haves and have-nots with regards to computer technology. Strictly defined, a computer is a data processing device that performs four major functions: It gathers data (or allows users to input data). Data can be a number, a word, a picture, or even a recording of sound. Information is data that has been organized or presented in a meaningful fashion: everything a computer does is broken down into a series of 0s and 1s. 1 is abinary digit, or bit: eight binary digits (or bits) combine to create 1 byte.