NMIX Final
How much did Google acquire YouTube for?
$1.6 billion
What are some of the core innovations of the original iTunes Music store?
- being the first legal digital music store to meet or surpass the ease of pirating digital music - micropayment enabling the purchase of individual tracks - integration with the iPod portable music player
Why do so many program languages exist?
- new programming languages offer new and improved functionality - different program languages are optimized to perform different tasks - older programming languages are still needed for many reasons, including supporting legacy project
What is true about many new communication technologies?
- they are weak in many areas when first introduced - they are compelling in one new area
What is true about the telegraph?
- was the first for of electronic telecommunication - offers an excellent illustration of Metcalfe's law - paved the way for all other forms of electronic telecommunication
What are the three rules of the innovation/development of software?
1) smaller and smaller for comfort of use 2) mechanically simpler with fewer moving parts 3) faster and more efficient
What are the major benefits of computers?
1) the ability to perfectly reproduce information ad infinitum 2) the cost of reproducing and transmitting info over a computer network becomes close to zero 3) the ability to store and process information at a scale and speed beyond human ability
How many cables would you need to connect 10 computers with a router?
10
How many bits are in 24 megabytes?
192,000,000
In what decade was the electric television invented?
1920s
When was Android acquired by Google?
2005
When was the iPhone released?
2007
When was the first Android device released?
2008
Today about 3 billion people are online with 2 billion of them using smartphones; by 2020, about _____ billion people will be online with about _____ billion of them using smartphones.
4, 4
How many cables would you need to connect 10 computers without a router?
45 cables
Approximately how much of the U.S. population hasn't heard of podcasting?
50%
How many bytes are in 48 megabits?
6,000,000
Most computers displays contain how many pixels?
60 pixels
What are some businesses that are actively working artificial intelligence and/or machine learning technologies?
Amazon, Facebook, Apple, Microsoft and Google
What does ASCII stand for and what is it?
American Standard Code for Information; represents text in computers, communication equipments, and other devices that are in text; it was developed from telegraphic codes
Who created the Android?
Andy Rubin
What was the first computer company to implement a Graphical User Interface in a commercially available consumer machine?
Apple
Who created JavaScript?
Brendan Eich
What are some examples of an ideogram?
Chinese characters, Roman numerals, Sumerian cuneiforms
What does DARPA stand for?
Defense advanced research projects agency
What is DNS?
Domain name system; an address book for websites
GPU
Graphics Processing Unit; has advanced capabilities that are primarily used for 3D game rendering and is composed of hundreds of cores; kind of like the CPU but for graphics
Who was depicted in Apple's original logo?
Isaac Newton
What are some programming languages?
Java, Javascript, C, C++, Python, Fourtran, Swift, Cobol, Lisp
What are some examples of a wireless network protocol?
LTE, Bluetooth, WiFi
What are a few common personal computer operating systems?
Microsoft Windows, Apple Mac OS X, Linux
What are some different types of IoT devices?
Nest thermostat, Philips Hue lightbulb and Amazon Dash button
_____ uses approximately _____ of all peak-time internet traffic in North America.
Netflix, 1/3
When did Google acquire YouTube?
October 2006
Who wrote "What is Code"?
Paul Ford
Who created the ethernet and when?
Robert Metcalf in the 1970s
What are forms of ephemeral messaging?
Snapchat messages and phone calls
What does SSD stand for and what does it do?
Solid state drive - a device that stores information and that is smaller and faster, but more expensive
What are some businesses Elon Musk founded or co-founded?
Tesla, PayPal and SpaceX
Who created the World Wide Web?
Tim Berners Lee
What is not a form of ephemeral messaging?
Twitter direct messages
Web site
a collection of web pages which are grouped together and usually connected together in various ways
What are some drawbacks of using a solid state drive over a hard disk drive?
a hard dick drive has more storage and is less expensive
Growth Hacking
a marketing technique developed by technology startups which uses creativity, analytical thinking and social metrics to sell products and gain exposure
What do companies that venture capital funds invest in typically have?
a novel technology or business model in high technology industries
AI Winters
a pattern in the development of artificial intelligence in which there are false starts followed by periods of inactivity
Agile Software Development
a set of principles for software development where requirements and solutions evolve through collaboration between self-organizing, cross-functional teams
Cookies
a small piece of data sent from a website and stored in a user's web browser while the user is browsing that website, generally used for catering advertisements to the user
Unicorn
a start-up company valued at over $1 billion
What does Agile Software Development promote?
adaptive planning, evolutionary development, early delivery, continuous improvement and rapid and flexible response to change
Software
allows users to interact with the hardware of their machine; software updates come out regularly and they can often be used with many types of hardware; all software uses at least one hardware device to operate; some softwares are media players, computer games and web browser
What was the first method of communication that could be infinitely changed and moved around to interpret different abstract concept?
alphabetic writing
Angel Investors
an affluent individual who provides capital for a business start-up, usually in exchange for convertible debt or ownership quite (think Shark Tank)
What is a medium?
an intervening agency, means, or instrument by which something is conveyed or accomplished
Why do online store often offer lower prices than brick and mortars?
because they do not have the same overhead cost
What does "bit" stand for?
binary digit; 1/8
What does a router do?
broadcasts the connection wirelessly
Cathode Ray Tubes
can be found in the back of your TV; vacuum tube that throws electrons at a screen to display the image
Which form of communication provided the first sense of permanence?
cave paintings
CPU
central processing unit; the processing unit that does the actual computation for a computer
Moore's Law
deals with computers; computing power doubles every 18-24 months - computers will get progressively smaller and faster and they will have less moving parts
What does a modem do?
decodes the signal from the cable/fiber line
What form of communication uses pulses of light and has found its way into large metropolitan areas?
fiber-optic
What is the earliest form of mass communication?
human senses
What are some current smartphone operating systems?
iOS and Android
Seed Money
initial money used when creating a start-up
Why might someone launching a website want to use a commercial web server instead of their own machine?
is always up and running; is always connected to the internet; is always available at the same IP address
What made the heliograph ineffective?
it only worked for some distances; it wasn't useful; and the message was limited
Minitel
it's a French thing launched in 1978; was a pre-world wide web online service
What are some benefits of using a solid state drive over a hard disk drive?
it's faster and more reliable than a hard disk drive; smaller and has no moving parts
What is the structure of domain names?
labels and then top level domain
When were phonographs and vinyl records first introduced?
late 1800s
What is an innovation brought by self-contained gestures?
lets you do things that other people can experience
What type of writing preceded alphabetic writing?
logographic writing
What was the first form of writing as mass communication?
logographic writing
What is new media?
means or channels of general communication, information, or entertainment in society that are new at whatever point in time the present "now" happens to be
Venture Capital
money that is provided to seed early-stage, emerging growth companies; invest in companies in exchange for equity in the companies they invest in; involves risk
What are Canadian tech unicorns known as?
narwhals
What was the first form of mass communication?
newspapers
Which forms of communication that we still use today are from the BC era?
newspapers and postal systems
Is a wireless mouse considered a IoT Device?
no
What innovation was brought about by cave paintings/petroglyphs?
permanence
Pixels
physical point in an image and is the smallest unit; store numbers and colors according to binary
What is RAM?
random access memory; working memory; does not store when the computer is off
What was a limitation of computer networking?
required writing
What are some techniques growth hackers use?
search engine optimization, website analytics, content marketing and A/B testing
What is the earliest and most basic form of media for humans?
signs
What is SQL?
structure query language; a way to interact with relational data bases
What is the evolution of media?
telephone, radio, computer networking, and internet
What is the relationship between hardware and software?
the hardware is comprised of the physical components which allows the software to run applications as well as the operating system
What is an Ajax according to "What is Code"?
the idea that you can build real software into a web page
Context Collapse
the phenomenon of social media's wide and sometimes unknown audiences causing difficulty for social media posters knowing what to say and how to say it
Showrooming
the practice of examining merchandise in a traditional brick and mortar retail store or other offline setting, and then buying it online, sometimes at a lower price
Semiotics
the study of signs
What did Kevin Kelly say about technological changes in the future?
the technological changes made in the next 20 years will dwarf the changes in the previous 20 years
Metcalfe's Law
the value of a telecommunication network is proportional to the square number of connected users and the cubed number of connected users; doubles every year; the more users a medium has, the more valuable it is
What are some computer trends?
they get smaller, faster and more powerful, and have fewer moving parts
Which sense do VR experts view as the most difficult to simulate?
touch
Who coined the term "unicorn"?
veture capitalist Aileen Lee in 2013 - chose it to represent the statistical rarity of that successful of a venture
Why is data management a seemingly impossible problem to solve?
we keep generating more data, which requires more programming in an endless cycle