Computer Applications Chapter 6 Vocabulary

Offshoring

A company's outsourcing of certain business functions to another country

Copyright

A legal concept that grants rights and control to the owner of any published work

Creative Commons

A license that allows authors to set conditions for the free use and distribution of their work

Humanoid robot

A robot that is created to imitate the appearance or capabilities of humans

Turing test

A test for artificial intelligence that measures a system's ability to hold a human like converatjon

Piracy

Acquiring or exchanging copies of protected digital creations without payment to or permission from their creator

Neural Networks

An approach to artificial intelligence that allows a machine to learn a new skill via the repeated analysis of large quantities of data

Fair use

An exception to copyright law that provides for a limited set of circumstances where others can use copyrighted material without first obtaining permission

Outsourcing

An organization's transfer of some aspect of its business to a third party

Attribution

Credit to the author of a work wherever it is used

Artificial intelligence

Involves the development of intelligent systems or machines that possess capabilities such as learning, problem solving, and communication

Intellectual property

Products of the mind such as ideas, designs, and expressions of creativity that may not have any physical form

Digital Rights Management

Technologies used to protect copyrighted material

Empathy

The ability to recognize, understand, and share the feelings of others

Whistleblowing

The act of alerting the public about harmful activities that are being hidden by an organization

Ethics

The philosophical study of morality

Telecommuting

The process of working for a company without being physically present at the company's office

Automation

The use of computers or machines to perform the work that was once done by a human