Sunday, May 16, 2010

1 week of key terms (25 words) from ch 11 (?)

  • Source documents: in DTP, the articles, chapters, maps, drawings, charts, and photographs that are to appear in the publication
  • kerning: the spacing between letter pairs in a document
  • leading: the spacing between lines of text
  • Desktop Publishing (DTP): software used mainly to produce print publications.
  • page-layout software: in desktop publishing, software used to combine various source documents into a coherent, visually pleasing publication
  • full-color: a desktop-published document that uses a wide range of color
  • spot color: the relatively easy use of a single color (or sometimes two) to add interest to a DTP product
  • electronic book: a handheld device that displays digital representations of the contents of books
  • Portable document format (PDF): allows documents of all types to be stored, viewed, or modified on any Windows or Mactinosh computer, making it possible for many organizations to reduce paper flow
  • electronic paper: a flexible, portable, paper-like display
  • camera-ready: typeset quality pages, ready to be photographed and printed
  • worksheet: a spreadsheet document that appears on the screen as a grid of numbered rows and columns
  • columns: along with rows, comprise the grid of a spreadsheet
  • cell: the intersection of a row and column on the grid of a spreadsheet
  • spreadsheet software: enables the users to control numbers, manipulating them in various ways. this software can manage budgeting, investment management, business projections, grade books, scientific simulations, checkbooks, financial planning and speculation, and other tasks involving number
  • value: the numbers that are the raw material used by spreadsheet software to perform calculation
  • address: in a spreadsheet, the location of a cell, determined by row number and column number
  • formula: step-by-step procedure for calculating a number on a spreadsheet
  • replication: automatic replication of values, labels and formulas, a feature of spreadsheet software
  • automatic recalculation: a spreadsheet capability that allows for easy correction of errors and makes it easy to try out different values while searching for solutions
  • functions: a predefined set of calculations such as SUM and AVERAGE in spreadsheet software
  • macros: custom-designed, embedded procedure program that automates tasks in application programs
  • automatic links: a link between worksheets in a spreadsheet that ensures a change in one worksheet is reflected in another
  • equation solver: a feature of some spreadsheet programs that determines data values

Thursday, May 6, 2010

AOI artifical intelegence

business and employment:
  • artificial intelligence effects employment because said intelligence replaces peoples' jobs. there are Expert systems that can diagnose human illnesses make financial forecasts and schedule routs for delivery pickups, and can manage Assembly lines and find faults in the system.
  • Also business use artificial intelligence such as smart sensors, that record data to improve Their business.
  • the development of of new algorithms in order to better surgery.

education:

  • now robotics are being taught languages that we understand rather than computer language. this may help education in the future because now robots will be able to teach people.
  • AI can be applied to machine learning methods to problems in vision.

Arts, entertainment and leisure:

  • artificial intelligence has changed the face of entertainment. An example is driving and flight simulators. the flight simulator helps the navy and improves as they go along, it helps you use group tactics, attack groups etc.
  • programming the computer to play the game against you is an example of artificial indulgence. for example playing chess with the computer.