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