YEAR 10 - story of a computer system
What MUST be included: How are they interlinked?
What is a computer? Input, process and output? Definition?
Hardware? Different elements in a comp? Bus?
Software?
Operating software? What does it do? Its main functions?
The CPU? Clock speed? Whats inside? Limitations?
Memory (reading and writing process)
Input and output devices? Name some?
Different types of data storage?
Stored program concept?
Fetch – decode – execute cycle?
Emerging trends:
What if I am asked to talk about new technologies? What can I talk about?
Questions you could be asked – Discuss, evaluate = you need the information available in order to answer these questions.
What are they? - Real world applications? - Moral and cultural issues? – The potential of the technology in future?
Nanotechnology
What is it? How might it work?
What can it be used for generally?
Give examples of how it has been used in the real world?
How can it be used in the field of computing?
Artificial Intelligence
What is it?
Why is it so difficult to get right – what are the challenges?
Are there any examples of when its worked well?
Can you explain the uses in:
Game / simulation playing – deep blue chess playing
Expert systems – making real life decisions (diagnose diesease based on symptoms)
Natural language – google translate
Neural networks – trying to reproduce connections and processes in the animal brain
Robotics – sensor – kernel - actuator
What uses might there be in the real world?
What are the most common moral and ethical issues that AI raises?
DNA computing
What is it? How does it work? Does it work? Is it still more theoretical than practical?
What are the potential uses in society?
Why is this substance suitable for use in computing? How might it work?
What possible moral and ethical issues are there with DNA
Computational models
What are the three computational models types?
What do they look like? When are you likely to use each particular method?
Can you give examples of when they are used?
Emerging trends homework
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