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How does Wireless Networking Work?
Dec 10th
Wireless Networking: home-network-help
Wireless Networking is the most trending phenomenon in the world of networks nowadays. Instead of having physically linked computers as its nodes a wireless network connects computing devices to itself using radio waves which are as low as the frequency of the harmless microwaves.
How does it Work?
Home-Network-Help quotes the following text about how a wireless network works:
“let say you have 2 computers each equipped with wireless adapter and you have set up wireless router. When the computer sends out the data, the binary data will be encoded to radio frequency and transmitted via wireless router. The receiving computer will then decode the signal back to binary data.” (home-network-help, n.d.)
How Technology Affects Human Lives!!
Dec 7th
Courtesy: blog.nus.edu
Technology has undoubtedly revolutionized the human society but the way it affects people’s lives may prove to be both beneficial and unpleasant. Ease of Getting complex tasks done is often described as the major plus point of the emergence and advancements in the information and communications technology. Technology has provided man with various devices that perform complex calculations that were otherwise not possible to be done humanely. Imagine how life was without technology.
How to Prevent your password from being cracked?
Dec 5th
Password (blog.kensington.com)
Password hacking is the deadliest phenomenon associated with our very dear Internet. The human lives have become so very digitized now that it is impossible to neglect the thought of securing passwords. Personal and financial information are all being conducted via the Internet. If a few steps are taken care of then it becomes highly impossible to crack passwords. These steps are as follows:
Learn How to Import PowerPoint in Prezi via a Prezi!!
Nov 27th
Want your PowerPoint Presentation to have a new look? Don’t feel like writing all the text another time and making the entire presentation all over again? Prezi provides you with just the solution you need. You PowerPoint Template and animations may not remain in place once you import your PowerPoint into Prezi but each slide content stays at its place. The best part is that the content on the slides remains editable even after being imported into Prezi. Import either one slide or as many as you like it’s up to you! Learn how to do it by viewing the Prezi below:
How to Import a PowerPoint in Prezi!
Nov 26th
Prezi is the new name for Presentations. The linear PowerPoint has begun to lose its fame to Prezi which gives you an outright better scope of making presentations. Gone are the days when there was only one meaning to making presentations. For people new to Prezi the good news is that Prezi gives the ability to its user to import their existing PowerPoint presentations in its domain. If you’d like to know how that is done, please read ahead! More >
Turing Test Basics
Nov 16th
Courtesy: en.wikipedia.org
Dictionary.com states the Turing Test as:
“A procedure to test whether a computer is capable of humanlike thought.”
This refers to the fact that this is a procedure to assess how much reasoning can be performed by a computer and how intelligibly can it perform in order to logically evaluate situations and circumstances.
Alan Turing, the creator of the Turing Test conducted an Imitation Game. According to the game a person sits remotely from a room in which a person and a computer are placed. The remotely located person asks questions from the respondents. If the responses obtained as a result are such that it becomes hard for the interrogator to decide which ones of them are from the customer and which are from the human respondent the computer is said to have passed the test. More >
To Supercompute..
Nov 13th
“Compute” is not an unfamiliar word for human beings. In order to compute the hardware and the software of a system need to work in collaboration with each other executing a series of tasks and thus accomplishing the required computing. The present age has dawned to supercomputing owing to the rapid advancements in Information Technology. More >
How Decision Support Systems assist Medicine!
Nov 5th
Decision Support System. Source: http://blog.lexi.com/blog/tools-for-checking-medicine-interactions
Decision Support Systems are one of the types of information systems that assist in medicine. They can be termed as information systems that assist in decision making. Improved decision making can be achieved by information systems that are flexible, interactive and adaptable.
Organizations use Decision Support Systems in order to make High level decisions.
HISTORY OF DSS IN MEDICINE
Computers have assisted man ever since their inception. The middle of the twentieth century was the time when the first research combining computers and medicine was published. Then there was no stopping at all. The last decade of the twentieth century witnessed the formal making of decision support systems in medicine usually referred to as clinical decision support systems.
The decision Support Systems in Medicine may either be knowledge based or may not be knowledge based.
Tech Ethics in the Classroom
Nov 4th
Continuing from where we left in the previous post it is imperative to mention that since school going students are the backbone of an entire generation of individuals they need to be dealt with in extremely careful and nurturing manner.
The technology equipped times of today do not make it easy for elders to control the way technology is utilized by students within the classroom. The role of school counselors is very important for the ethical brought up of students. This role is not restricted to the ethics of class rooms only. The parents of the students must also be counseled for a collaborative effort.
A quick course in classroom ethics may sound like a constructive idea for training students but it would not be sufficient to bring about the intended change. An overnight change is also impossible. The precaution and reform process should be continuous and the following suggestions should be taken under account when conducting it:
How to control technology in the classroom?
Nov 2nd
Technology and education go hand in hand. The invasions of technology laden gadgets make it impossible for classrooms to remain detached from them. Before the issue of controlling classroom technology is addressed it is imperative that the need to do so be emphasized first.
The role of technology in the enhancement of learning is beyond any doubt. To say the least, technology giants like Apple are making substantial efforts to incorporate learning and technology together. This however, also implies that just as the steering of a car cannot be handed over to would be drivers before they get their license, similarly the juveniles cannot be left with technologically advanced equipment without any checks or restrictions.
Technology in the classroom. Courtesy: http://www.apple.com/au/education/ipad/
