Exam: ECO361N B S08--Name____________________________
1. What is a byte? How many colors can you represent with a byte?
2. What is a diode?
3. What is venture capital?
4. What is the difference between an operating system and a
computer language such as Java?
5. Why place a satellite at 22,000 miles around the equator?
6. How does a robot identify different products coming down the
assembly line?
7. What is a client server network?
8 Why is HTML and XML and what is the difference1?
9. Define discovery,
invention and innovation and give an incentive system for each. Briefly discuss: Discovery always leads
invention in the development of new products.
10. Binary
numbers: What two factors
determine the quality of the binary representation of voice and discuss the
difference between phone and CD grade quality?
11. Chips: What has
been the trend in the number of electronic components on a chip since
1960? What are the economics of
this trend? What has been the
impact of the cost of a bit of memory?
What is the economic limit of the number of components on the chip? How steps do firms take to relax this
limit?
12.
Describe
two types of parallel processors.
What are the problems and promise of developing compilers for parallel
processors?
13.
Why was the MAC interface an advance
over DOS in the PC world? How did
the PC world react?
14 Define and
discuss the economics of intranets?
15. Define teleconferencing and telecommuting. Give an example of a company organized
through telecommuting? Briefly
discuss who benefits and who loses in telecommuting? What are towns doing to
attract telecommuters?
16. What is JIT? What
limits the application of JIT in the US? What approach has been taken in the
US? Why does JIT require quality control?
Discuss two important factors of modern quality control.
17.
Research
question:
WRITE
IN INK OR LOSE 3 POINTS
Services and
productivity since 1980
1. To what
extent has the advance in information technology made production of goods more
efficient?
2. To what
extent has the advance in information technology made production of services
more efficient?
2.
Is there a measurement problem? Is so explain?