MISC Final
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| application program interface that allows applications to make use of the operating system | API (application program interface)
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| characteristic of an entity | attribute
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| website that people can create and use to write about their observations, experiences, and opinions on a wide range of topics | blog
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| using a giant cluster of computers to serve as a host to run applications that require high performance computing. | cloud computing
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| downloading audio programs or music from the internet to play on computers or music players | podcast
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| the simultaneous execution of the same task on multiple processor sin order to obtain results faster | parallel processing
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| a subset of a data warehouse | data mart
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| information analysis tool that involves the automated discovery of patterns and relationships in a data warehouse. Objective to extract patterns, trends, and rules | data mining
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| a diagram fo data entities and their relationships | data model
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| a database that collects business information from many sources in the enterprise, covering all aspects of the company's processes, products and customers. | data warehouse
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| a report developed to give certain information at someone's request | demand report
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| the person or group who has the expertise or knowledge the expert system is trying to capture | domain expert
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| using information systems and the internet to performa all business related tasks and functions | e-business
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| any business transaction executed electronically between companies | e-commerce
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| data models that use basic graphical symbols to show the organization of and relationships between data. | entity relationship
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| hardware and software that stores knowledge and makes inferences, similar to a human expert. | expert system
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| a network based on web technologies that links selected resources of a company's intranet with its customers suppliers or other business partners | extranet
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| typically a name, number or combination of characters that describes an aspect of a business object or activity | field
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| a collection of related records | file
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| an approach to solving large, complex problems in which a number of related operations or models change and evolve until the best one emerges | genetic algorithm
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| software application that consists of most elements in a DSS, plus software to provide effective support in a group decision making | group support system
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| an interface that uses icons and menus displayed on screen to send commands to the computer system. | graphical user interface (GUI)
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| commonly accepted guidelines or procedures that usually find a good solution | heuristics
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| relates the sense of touch and other physical sensations to the virtual world, is the least developed and perhaps the most challenging to create | haptic interface
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| microprocessor that combines two or more independent processors into a single computer so they can share the workload and deliver a big boost in processing capacity | multicore processor
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| codes that let the web browser know how to format text and whether images, sound, and other elements should be inserted | HTML
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| par tof the expert system that seeks information and relationships from the knowledge base and provides answers, predictions, and suggestions similar to the way a human expert would | inference engine
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| an internal network based on web technologies that allows people w/in an organization to exchange information and work on projects | intranet
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| a philosophy of inventory management in which inventory and materials are delivered just before they are used in manufacturing a product. | just in time inventory
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| a summary of the previous day's critical activities; typically available at the beginning of each workday | key indicator report
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| a combination of software and hardware that allows teh computer to change how it functions for reacts to situations based on feedback it receives. | learning systems
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| flat displays that use liquid crystals | LCD screen
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| a field or set of fields that uniquely identifies the record | primary key
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| viruses and wormsl, which are software programs that, when loaded into a computer system, will destroy, interrupt, or cause errors in processing | malware
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| the identification of specific markets to target them with advertising messages | market segmentation
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| part of a DSS that provides decision makers access to a variety of models and assists them in decision making | model base
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| processing that allows the computer to understand and react to statements and commands made in a nautral language | natural language processing
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| a computer system that can simulate the functioning of a human brain | neural network
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| software that allows users to explore data from a number of perspectives | OLAP (online analytical processing)
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| a small program hidden in a network or a computer system that records identification umbers and passwords | passwords sniffer
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| help provide additional features to standard web sties | plug ins
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| the web as a computing platform that supports software applications and the sharing of information between users | web 2.0
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| method of storing data that generates extra bits of data from existing data, allowing the system to create a reconstruction ma so that if a hard drive fails, the system can rebuild lost data | RAID (redundant array of independent/inexpensive discs)
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| a collection of related data fields | record
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| based on research by Eastman Kodak Company and is appearing on the market in small electronic devices. LCD screens contain a flurorescent backlight, these directly emit light | OLED (organic light emitting diodes)
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| device that forwards data packets to parts of a computer network | router
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| a model that will find a good - but not necessarily the best - problem solution | satisficing
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| description of the database | schema
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| standardized data manipulation language developed by IBM...the standard query language for databases | SQL
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| an organized collection of people, procedures, software, databases, and devices used to record completed business transaction | TPS
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| an organized collection of people, procedures, software, databases, and devices used to support problem specific decision making | DSS
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| specialized DSS that includes all hardware, software, data, procedures, and people used to assist senior-level executives within the organization | ESS
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| an organized collection of people, procedures, software, databases and devices that provides routine information to managers and decision makers. | MIS
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| a malicious program that disguises itself as a useful application or game and purposeful does something the user does not expect | trojan horse
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| the process by which VPNs transfer information by encapsulating traffic in IP packets over the internet | tunneling
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| an assigned address on the internet for each computer | URL
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| a computer program file capable of attaching to disks or other files and replicating itself repeatedly, typically without the user's knowledge or permission | virus
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| a parasitic computer program that can create copies of itself on the infected computer or send copies to other computers via a network | worm
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| performs mathematical caculations and makes logical comparisons | Arithmetic logic unit (ALU)
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| ancestor of internet. project started by dept. of defense 1969 | arpanet
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| markup language that defines the visual appearance of content on a web page | cascading style sheet (CSS)
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| criminal hacker | cracker
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| person with knowledge and skill in computers. now is a negative thing. | hacker
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| the purpose is to seek information and relationships from the knowledge base and to provide answers, predictions, suggestions like a human expert | inference engine
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| User interface; allows decision makers to easily access and manipulate the DSS and to use common business terms and phrases | diaglogue manager
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| collection of instructions and commands used to define and describe data and relationships in a specific database | data definition language (DDL)
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| a group of programs that manipulate the database and provide an interface between the database and the user of the application programs | database management system (DBMS)
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| allowable values for data attributes | domain
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| a set of integrated programs that manages the vital business operations for an entire multisite, global organization. Replaces many applications with one unified set of programs | (ERP) Enterprise resource planning
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