Information Technology for Management Session 1

Professor Sonal Dabke 9769981310 Sonal.adabke@gmail.com

Road Map
Part 1 : Syllabus & Assessment Scheme
Part 2 : Quiz on Historical Perspectives of Computers and Information technology Part 3 : How a Computer works Hardware and Software components and their characteristics from a user/buyers

perspective

Historical Perspective of Computer and Information Technology How a Computer works Hardware and Software components and their characteristics from a user/buyers perspective

Part 1 : Syllabus
1. Historical Perspective of Computer and Information Technology 2. How a Computer works Hardware and Software

components and their characteristics from a user/buyers

perspective

Historical Perspective of Computer and Information Technology How a Computer works Hardware and Software components and their characteristics from a user/buyers perspective

Part 1 : Syllabus
3. Basics of Networking Need for, Components of networks, LAN/WAN/MAN, various options for Networking for a business Dial Up, Leased Lines, DSL

Lines,

VSAT. Various medium for communication

terrestrial, satellite ,copper ,fiber optic etc

Historical Perspective of Computer and Information Technology How a Computer works Hardware and Software components and their characteristics from a user/buyers perspective

Part 1 : Syllabus
4. Basics of Internet how internet works Familiarity with various components of the internet Browser, Web Server, DNS Server, Search Engine Applications of Internet

Websites, Blogs, email, FTP, Voice over Internet

Historical Perspective of Computer and Information Technology How a Computer works Hardware and Software components and their characteristics from a user/buyers perspective

Part 1 : Syllabus
5. Impact of IT on business and society 6. Role of IT Overview of concepts such as ERP, SCM, CRM, Data Warehousing and Business Intelligence, e-

commerce, e-Business, Knowledge management etc

Historical Perspective of Computer and Information Technology How a Computer works Hardware and Software components and their characteristics from a user/buyers perspective

Reference Texts
1. e-Business: Roadmap for Success: Ravi Kalakota and Marcia Robinson 2. The Seven Steps to Nirvana: Strategic Insights into eBusiness Transformation: Mohanbir Sawhney

3. Knowledge Management by Ganesh Natarajan and Sandhya Shekhar

4. Business @ The Speed of Thought by Bill Gates 5. TechVenture: New Rules on Value and Profit from Silicon Valley by Mohanbir Sahwney 6. Alex Leon & Mathews Leon: Introduction to computers (Vikas) 7. Rajaraman: Introduction to Information Technology(Prentice Hal India) 8. Sanders, D. H. : Computers in Business: An Introduction (McGraw Hill)

Internal Assessment:40 marks

Attendance & Class Participation : 10 marks Test : 10 Marks Individual Presentation: 10 Marks Group Presentation : 10 marks

Why Study IT ?
Success in any field requires a command of technology

Information Technology is the foundation of the 21st

century economy Number one fastest growing profession over the next ten years. Fascinating, mission-critical, high paying jobs, national job

growth and multiple career paths.

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Part 2
Welcome To

the Information Technology Quiz

Round 1
1. What is the full form of ISP ?

Round 1
2. Who is the owner of Palm OS?

Round 1
3. George Stibitz invented a machine called the CNC and performed the first remoteaccess computing demonstration on it in 1940. What does CNC stand for?

Round 1
4. In 1943, computer engineers at MIT embarked on an eight-year project to design a flight simulator for the U.S. Navy. What was the project called?

Round 1
5. How much floor space did the ENIAC computer, unveiled in 1946, take up?

Round 1
6. What was the first commercially produced computer ?

Round 2
1.This computer, which was used at the U.S. Census Bureau, was the first well-known

commercial computer.
a) UNIVAC I

b) Sinclair VX80
c) American Supercomputer d) FORTRAN II

Round 2
2. CBS News used a UNIVAC computer on Nov. 4, 1952, to predict the outcome of this presidential race.
a) Franklin D. Roosevelt v. Wendell Willkie

b) Dwight D. Eisenhower v. Adlai Stevenson

c) Harry S. Truman v. Thomas E. Dewey

Round 2
3. What was the first computerized video game?
a) Galactic b) SpaceWar! c) Pong d) Paperboy e) Stargames!

Round 2
4.Two professors at this college developed the BASIC programming language in 1964.
a) Stanford

b) MIT
c) Dartmouth d) Harvard e) Northwestern

Round 2
5. In what year was the first e-mail sent?
a) 1965 b) 1971 c) 1982

Round 2
6. Who designed the Apple I?
a) Bill Gates b) Steve Jobs c) Steve Wozniak

Round 2
7. What video game did the Apple II come with?
a) Zork b) Pitfall c) Space Invaders d) Pac-man e) Breakout f) Pong

Round 2
8. What was the first portable computer?
a) Irving II b) Sanders I c) Parker II d) Osborne I

Round 2
9. What's the best-selling computer model of all

time?
a) Apple I b) Apple II c) Commodore 64 d) Apple Macintosh e) Radio Shack TRS-80

Round 2
10. This computer language, which controlled a

mechanical 'turtle,' was developed for children.

a) Linux b) LOGO c) Java d) Pascal e) C++

Round 2
11. Microsoft distributed 450,000 disks of this new

product in the November 1983 issue of 'PC World' magazine.

a) PowerPoint b) Excel

c) Word

Round 2
12. What was the first computer with graphical user

interface?
a) Commodore PET

b) Amstrad CPC 464

c) Apple Lisa d) Tandy Color Computer 3

Round 3
1. He designed the Linux operating system. Who is he?

Round 3
2. He is the CEO and President of a social networking site. Who is he?

Round 3
3. These two met at

Stanford and went on

to develop the worlds

most popular search

engine?

Round 3
4. American business

magnate
founder,

and

the

chairman

and chief executive

officer of Dell Inc.?

Round 3
5. American entrepreneur and
inventor. founder, former He is coand chairman, chief

executive

officer of Apple Inc

Round 3
6. is an American business
magnate, estate investor, developer real and

philanthropist

who

co-

founded Microsoft with Bill

Gates.

Round 4
1. The original name of this company when the company was founded in 1994 by Jerry Yang and

David Filo was 'Jerry's Guide to the World Wide

Web. name the company ?

Round 4
2. This company was founded in 1945 in Amalner, Maharashtra, producing

sunflower Vanaspati Oil and soaps. It was the first

company which marketed the first indigenous homemade PC from India in 1975.

Round 4
3. This company had a humble beginning, which was founded in 1981 by seven friends and 215

dollars. Name the company

Round 4
4. This person was chosen as the Entrepreneur of the Year 1997', MIT chose him as one of 100

young innovators who are expected to have the

greatest impact on technology

Round 4
5. This logo is a symbol of a system of

interlinked hypertext do
cuments accessed via the Internet.

Round 4
6. This is a German global software corporation that provides enterprise software applications

and support to businesses of all sizes

globally.

Round 5 Fact or Fiction?

1.About a quarter of the world's population uses the
Internet.
a) fact

b) fiction
c) almost fiction: About a quarter of the people on Earth use computers, but they don't all have Internet access.

Round 5 Fact or Fiction?

2.As of June 2009, there were about 18 million domain
names in existence.
a) fact

b) fiction
c) almost fiction: There are 180 million domain names out there.

Round 5 Fact or Fiction?

3. One of the most important predecessors of the
Internet was a network called NETLINX. It started in 1979 with a connection between Harvard and MIT.
a) fact b) fiction c) almost fiction: The schools were Yale and Princeton.

Round 5 Fact or Fiction?

4. The Samsung i5000, which came out in 1996, was the
first cell phone with Internet access.
a) fact

b) fiction
c) almost fiction: Right year, but it was the Nokia 9000 Communicator.

Round 5 Fact or Fiction?

5. The first widely used Web browser was called Mosaic,
which was introduced in 1993. a) fact b) fiction c) almost fiction: Mosaic rolled out in 1989.

Round 5 Fact or Fiction?

6. March 10, 2000, is the date of the infamous dot-com
"bubble burst." a) fact b) fiction c) almost fiction: It was May 10, 2000.

Round 5 Fact or Fiction?

7. By some estimates, "cyberslacking" costs companies
around the world $1 billion a year. a) fact b) fiction c) almost fiction: It's more like $10 billion a year - yikes.

TIE BREAKER

Round 5 Fact or Fiction?

Internet started in the year 1986
a) fact b) fiction c) almost fiction: it started in 1996

History of Computers

The first computer were PEOPLE

The first use of the word "computer" was recorded in 1613, referring to a person who carried out calculations, or computations, and the word continued with the same meaning until the middle of the 20th century.

Two Separate Technologies

1. Automated Calculation

2. Programmability

Few Early Devices

The abacus was an early aid for mathematical computations

The oldest surviving abacus was

used

in

300

B.C.

by

the

Babylonians

Few Early Devices

In 1617 an eccentric (some say mad) Scotsman named John Napier

invented logarithms, which are a

technology that allows multiplication to be performed via addition. He also invented an alternative to tables called Napier's Bones.

Napiers Rods

Slide Rule
Built in England in 1632 by William Oughtred and still in use in the 1960's by
the NASA engineers of the Mercury, Gemini, and Apollo programs which landed men on the moon. It is a mechanical analog computer used primarily for multiplication and division, and also for functions such as roots, logarithms and trigonometry.

Wilhelm Schickards Calculating Clock in 1623

Gear-driven calculating machine

Pascaline or Pascals Calculator - 1642

Pascal went on to invent probability theory, the hydraulic press, and the syringe

Blaise Pascal

Stepped Reckoner -1694

Added automatic multiplication and division to Pascal's calculator Refined the binary number system, which is at the

foundation of virtually all digital computers.

Gottfried Wilhelm Leibnizco-inventor with Newton of calculus

Early 1800s
1. Joseph Marie Jacquard 2. Jacquards Loom

Charles Xavier Thomas

Arithmometer

First Mechanical calculator which started the Mechanical Calculator Industry

Mid 1800s

The Difference Engine

Charles Babbage Father of Computers

Countess Ada Lovelace

First Computer Programmer

1890 Census of America

The U.S. Constitution states that a census should be taken of all U.S. citizens every 10 years in order to determine the representation of the states in Congress. While the very first census of 1790 had only required 9 months, by 1880 the U.S. population had grown so much that the count for the 1880 census took 7.5 years. Automation was clearly needed for the next census. The census bureau offered a prize for an inventor to help with the 1890 census and this prize was won by Herman Hollerith, who proposed and then successfully adopted

Jacquard's punched cards for the purpose of computation.

Hollerith desk
Hollerith's invention, known as the Hollerith desk, consisted of
a card reader which sensed the holes in the cards, a gear driven mechanism which could count (using Pascal's mechanism

which we still see in car odometers), and a large wall of dial

indicators (a car speedometer is a dial indicator) to display the
results of the count.

An operator working at a Hollerith Desk like the one below

Preparation of punched cards for the U.S. census

Birth of IBM
Hollerith built a company, the Tabulating Machine Company which, after a few buyouts, eventually became International Business Machines, known today as IBM. IBM grew rapidly

and punched cards became ubiquitous. Your gas bill would

arrive each month with a punch card you had to return with your payment. This punch card recorded the particulars of

your account: your name, address, gas usage, etc.

Mark One
One early success was the Harvard Mark I computer which was built as a partnership between Harvard and IBM in 1944. This was the first programmable digital computer made in the U.S. The machine weighed 5 tons, incorporated 500 miles of wire, was 8 feet tall and 51 feet long, and

had a 50 ft rotating shaft running its length, turned by a 5 horsepower

electric motor. The Mark I ran non-stop for 15 years, sounding like a roomful of ladies knitting.

The Harvard Mark I: an electro-mechanical computer

One of the primary programmers for the Mark I was a woman, Grace Hopper. Hopper found the first computer "bug": a dead moth that had gotten into the Mark I and whose wings were blocking the reading of the holes in the paper tape. The word "bug" had been used to describe a defect since at least 1889 but Hopper is credited with coining the word "debugging" to describe the work to eliminate program faults.

 In 1953 Grace Hopper invented the first high-level language, "Flow-matic". This language eventually became COBOL which was the language most

affected by the infamous Y2K problem. A high-level language is designed

to be more understandable by humans than is the binary language understood by the computing machinery. A high-level language is

worthless without a program -- known as a compiler -- to translate it into

the binary language of the computer and hence Grace Hopper also constructed the world's first compiler. Grace remained active as a Rear Admiral in the Navy Reserves until she was 79 (another record).

The Mark I operated on numbers that were 23 digits wide. It could add or subtract two of these numbers in three-tenths of a second, multiply them in four seconds, and divide them in ten

seconds. Forty-five years later computers could perform an

addition in a billionth of a second! Even though the Mark I had three quarters of a million components, it could only store 72 numbers!

Today, home computers can store 30 million numbers in RAM and another 10 billion numbers on their hard disk. Today, a

number can be pulled from RAM after a delay of only a few

billionths of a second, and from a hard disk after a delay of only a few thousandths of a second. This kind of speed is obviously impossible for a machine which must move a rotating shaft and that is why electronic computers killed off their mechanical

predecessors.

Part 3
How a Computer works Hardware and

Software components and their characteristics

from a user/buyers perspective

Thank You
Professor Sonal Dabke

9769981310
Sonal.adabke@gmail.com