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Blown to Bits Vocab3

Blown to Bits Vocab Chapter 3 for Mobile CSP

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Spam electronic junk mail or junk newsgroup postings
Modeling process of representing a real-world object of phenomenon as a set of mathematical equations.
Megapixel one million pixels, used in reference to the resolution of a graphics device
Render refers to the process of adding realism to a computer graphics by adding 3-D qualities, such as shadows and variations in color and shade.
Megabyte used to describe data storage, 1,048,576 bytes (abbreviated MB)
Steganography the art and science of hiding information by embedding messages within other, seemingly harmless messages
Pixel short for a picture element, a single point in a graphic image
Upload to transmit data from a computer to a bulletin board service, mainframe, or network.
Raster the rectangular area of a display screen actually being used to display images
OCR - Optical Character Recognition the branch of computer science that involves reading text from paper and translating the images into a form that the computer can manipulate
DSP - Digital Signal Processing refers to manipulating analog information
Cryptography the art of protecting information by transforming it into an unreadable format, called cipher text
ASCII a code for representing English characters as numbers, with each letter assigned a number from 0 to 127
Algorithm a formula or set of steps for solving a particular problem.
Download to copy data (usually an entire file) from a main source to a peripheral device
Analog a device or system that represents changing values as continuously variable physical quantities
Digital any system based on discontinuous data or events.
Lossless Compression data compression techniques in which no data is lost.
Lossy Compression data compression techniques in which some amount of data is lost. This technique attempts to eliminate redundant information.
Cloud Computing comparable to grid computing, cloud computing relies on sharing resources rather than having local servers handle applications.
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