Prep for Quiz 1

Sites: Be prepared to write two sentences beyond the notes about the following sites except at noted

• Discovey, Invention, and Innovation
  • United States Patent and Trademark Office
  • incubators
  • UT's effort at technological transfer
• Binary Numbers
  • Unicode Home Page
  • Raytracing
• Microelectronics--Make sure you have shockwave : Be prepared to write a paragraph explaining the 3 items below
  • Intel: Transitor
  • Intel: How to build an IC
  • Intel: How a microprocessor works
• Hardware-Software
  • Neural Networks
  • DNA computers
  • IBM Mainframes
  • Software Links
  • Expert Systems

Questions: Be prepared to answer one of the following questions

1. Define discovery, invention and innovation and give an incentive for each.
2. In the digital representation of letters why are standards necessary? Are standards necessary to represent still and dynamic images? Briefly discuss.
3. What are the economic factors which lead to the increasing the number of electronic components on a chip.
4. What is a parallel processor. Why is it harder to program than a von Neumann computer. What is a neural network? At what activity does it excel.
5. Binary numbers: What two factors determine the quality of the binary representation of voice and three factors which determine the quality of the binary representation of computer screen images?
6. Briefly point out six facts about the evolution of institutions promoting discovery, invention, and innovation since 1790.