1. { Jennifer-Rose Hebert Weekly Topics CSC 101-04 August 29 th, 2013

2. Index Weeks 1-3 Weeks 4-6 Weeks 7-9 Weeks 10-12 Weeks 13-14

3.  Showrooming is when a customer views a product at a onsite store, but then decides to buy the product online. This is because the product is usually cheaper online. Almost everyone showrooms, but it is hurtful to the physical businesses. Show Rooming Week 1 Thursday, August 29 th, 2013

4.  I believe that I learn best by reading and watching. I am definitely a visual learning, and these two ways are the best methods of learning for me. How I Learn Best Week 1 Thursday, August 29 th, 2013

5.  An open source textbook is a textbook made available online to be freely used by students, teachers and other members of the public.  Open source textbooks seem to be the answer to access and affordability concerns. Open Source Textbooks Week 2 Tuesday, September 3 rd, 2013

6.  MOOC means “Massive Open Online Course”  MOOC is an online course aimed at large-scale interactive participation and open access via the web.  MOOC is meant to be the answer to higher education access and affordability concerns. MOOC Week 2 Tuesday, September 3 rd, 2013

7.  Twine is a wireless sensor block tightly integrated with a cloud-based service. The durable, rubbery block has Wi-Fi, on-board temperature and orientation sensors.  You set rules to trigger messages, such as emails or texts. The rules are put together with a palette of available conditions and actions, and read like normal sentences: WHEN moisture sensor gets wet THEN text "The basement is flooding!" Twine Week 3 Tuesday, September 10 th, 2013

8.  Intellectual property is a legal concept which protects the rights of the creations of the mind.  Under intellectual property law, owners are granted rights to a variety of creative works, such as musical, literary, and artistic works; discoveries and inventions; and words, phrases, symbols, and designs.  Some types of intellectual property rights include copyright, trademarks, patents, industrial design rights, trade dress, trade secrets. Intellectual Property Week 3 Tuesday, September 10 th, 2013

9.  Open-source software is computer software with its source code made available and allows users to change it as they wish.  Open-source software is very often developed in a public, collaborative manner.  An example is Open Office, a free piece of software that mirrors Microsoft Office. Open Source Software Week 4 Tuesday, September 17 th, 2013

10.  EPIC Yale New Haven Hospital is a state-of-the art integrated information system that combines available patient information in a single database to improve caregivers’ ability to review information and treat patients.  It will be fully implemented in 2014 and providers from throughout the Yale New Haven Health System will be able to easily integrate patient information. EPIC YNHH Week 4 Tuesday, September 17 th, 2013

11.  Crowdsourcing is the practice of obtaining needed services, ideas, or content by soliciting contributions from a large group of people from an online community.  Often used split up tedious work or fund-raise companies and charities, this process can occur both online and offline. Crowdsourcing Week 5 Tuesday, September 24 th, 2013

12.  Instagram is an online photo-sharing, video- sharing and social networking service that enables its users to take pictures and videos, apply digital filters to them, and share them on a variety of social networking services. Week 5 Tuesday, September 24 th, 2013 Instagram

13.  In the near future, Motion Interface will enable a new era of computing where accurately tracking motion in free space and delivering this information as input commands to consumer electronics devices will drive advances in gaming, augmented reality, user interfaces based on gestures, Location Based Services, and health and fitness.  Motion Interface is a transformational technology that promises to have a significant impact on consumer products. Motion Interface Week 6 Tuesday, October 1 st, 2013

14.  Khan Academy is a non-profit educational website created in 2006 by educator Salman Khan, a graduate of MIT and Harvard Business School.  The stated mission is to provide "a free world- class education for anyone anywhere".  The website supplies a free online collection of more than 4,500 micro lectures via video tutorials stored on YouTube teaching, well, everything.  Khan Academy has delivered over 260 million lessons. Week 6 Tuesday, October 1 st, 2013 Khan Academy

15.  Human rights are "commonly understood as inalienable fundamental rights to which a person is inherently entitled simply because she or he is a human being.“  Human rights are thus conceived as universal and egalitarian.  These rights may exist as natural rights or as legal rights, in local, regional, national, and international law. Human Rights Week 7 Tuesday, October 8 th, 2013

16.  jQuery Mobile is a touch-optimized web framework currently being developed by the jQuery project team.  The development focuses on creating a framework compatible with a wide variety of smartphones and tablet computers, made necessary by the growing tablet and smartphone market.  The jQuery Mobile framework is compatible with other mobile app frameworks and platforms. Week 7 Tuesday, October 8 th, 2013 jQuery Mobile

17.  Internet governance is the development and application of shared principles, norms, rules, decision-making procedures, and programs that shape the evolution and use of the Internet.  Internet governance should not be confused with E-Governance which refers to technology driven governance. Internet Governance Week 8 Tuesday, October 15 th, 2013

18.  Google Apps is a service from Google providing independently customizable versions of several Google products under a custom domain name. It features several Web applications with similar functionality to traditional office suites, including Gmail, Google Groups, Google Calendar, Talk, Docs and Sites.  In addition to shared apps (calendar, docs, etc.), there is Google Apps Marketplace, an App "store" for Google Apps users. Google Applications Week 8 Tuesday, October 15 th, 2013

19. HTML5 Beginners Tutorial Week 8 Tuesday, October 15 th, 2013  I found these videos to be very helpful and explicit in detail. I like that I can see what is happening as well as listen to what the teacher is doing. I will use these videos in the future when trying to do new things with HTML5.

20.  Net neutrality is the principle that Internet service providers and governments should treat all data on the Internet equally, not discriminating or charging differentially by user, content, site, platform, application, type of attached equipment, and modes of communication.  Also known as network neutrality or Internet neutrality. Week 9 Tuesday, October 22 nd, 2013 Net Neutrality

21.  Geolocation is the identification of the real-world geographic location of an object, such as a radar, mobile phone or an Internet-connected computer terminal.  Geolocation is closely related to the use of positioning systems but can be distinguished from it by a greater emphasis on determining a meaningful location, such as a street address, rather than just a set of geographic coordinates. Week 9 Tuesday, October 22 nd, 2013 Geolocation

22.  Spamming is the use of electronic messaging systems to send unsolicited bulk messages, especially advertising, indiscriminately.  Spamming remains economically viable because advertisers have no operating costs beyond the management of their mailing lists, and it is difficult to hold senders accountable for their mass mailings. Spam Week 10 Tuesday, October 29 nd, 2013

23.  Microsoft Office Live is a discontinued web- based service providing document sharing and website creation tools for consumers and small businesses.  Office Live consisted of two services, Office Live Workspace, which was superseded by SkyDrive, and Office Live Small Business, which was superseded by Office 365. Office Live Week 10 Tuesday, October 29 nd, 2013

24.  Computer security is information security as applied to computers and networks.  The field covers all the processes and mechanisms by which computer-based equipment, information and services are protected from unintended or unauthorized access, change or destruction.  Computer security also includes protection from unplanned events and natural disasters. Security Week 11 Tuesday, November 5 th, 2013

25.  A facial recognition system is a computer application for automatically identifying or verifying a person from a digital image or a video frame from a video source.  One of the ways to do this is by comparing selected facial features from the image and a facial database.  It is typically used in security systems and can be compared to other biometrics such as fingerprint or eye iris recognition systems. Face Recognition Week 11 Tuesday, November 5 th, 2013

26.  I attended the lecture. It was not very life- changing.  Donofrio emphasized that business must change and evolve with technology, and the way to innovate is work with other people of disciplines other than yours  He ended his presentation with: “If nothing changes, nothing changes.” Nick Donofrio – Innovation for the 21 st Century Week 11 Monday, November 4 th, 2013

27.  EdX, a nonprofit enterprise founded by Harvard and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, will release automated software that uses artificial intelligence to grade student essays and short written answers. Essay-Grading Software Week 12 Tuesday, November 12 th, 2013

28.  Standardization is the process of developing and implementing technical standards.  The goals of right standardization can be to help with independence of single suppliers (commoditization), compatibility, interoperability, safety, repeatability, or quality. Week 12 Tuesday, November 12 th, 2013 Standardization

29.  I was not able to attend Don Gotterbarn’s speech about software development and how it is more than just programming.  Instead, I watched a tutorial about Google Docs on YouTube.  The address of the video is: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OBh8bMC7XE U&feature=youtu.be http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OBh8bMC7XE U&feature=youtu.be http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OBh8bMC7XE U&feature=youtu.be  The video provides an introduction to the basics of Google docs. These basics include editing, sharing, and tracking changes in documents.  I found the tutorial to be educational and clear. It was easy to understand and follow the speaker and what he was explaining. Google Docs Tutorial Week 12 Tuesday, November 12 th, 2013

30. Zillow.com Week 13 Tuesday, November 19 th, 2013  Zillow is an online real estate database that was founded in 2005 and created by former Microsoft executives and founders of Microsoft spin-off Expedia.  Zillow has data on 100 million homes across the United States, not just those homes currently for sale.  In addition to giving value estimates of homes, it offers several features including value changes of each home in a given time frame, aerial views of homes, and prices of comparable homes in the area.  Where it can access appropriate public data, it also provides basic information on a given home, such as square footage and the number of bedrooms and bathrooms.

31.  Internet privacy involves the right or mandate of personal privacy concerning the storing, repurposing, provision to third-parties, and displaying of information pertaining to oneself via the Internet.  Privacy can entail either Personally Identifying Information or non-PII information such as a site visitor's behavior on a website.  PII refers to any information that can be used to identify an individual Week 13 Tuesday, November 19 th, 2013 Privacy

32.  The iPhone 6 release date will be in June 2014.  The next processor one will be a quad-core A8 or an evolved A7. The big sell here is more power with better efficiency, which should help battery life.  Apple's bought camera sensors from Sony before, and we're going to see a new, 13- megapixel sensor that takes up less room without compromising image quality. iPhone 6 Week 14 Tuesday, November 26 th, 2013

33.  instaGrok offers a new way to learn.  Users explore graphical concept maps, called Groks, that show how ideas connect.  Unlike other educational sites, instaGrok introduces a new dimension to learning, giving you all the info the web holds on your selected subject, but then indulges you with info about related topics via Groks, allowing you to learn or teach more about the ‘big picture’.  Their mission is to help everyone discover the joy of learning, they do it by building innovative technology that enables engaging, safe and personalized learning. Week 14 Tuesday, November 26 th, 2013 Instagrok.com