ITE 221 - Fall 2012 - Chapter 3

The chapter describes numbering systems and their use in data representation; compares and contrasts various data representation methods; describes how nonnumeric data is represented and describes common data structures and their uses.

http://www.bobbemer.com/ASCII.HTM

Bob Bemer was a man ahead of his time.  He was working for IBM in the early 1960’s and realized that computers would eventually get involved in communications.  He foresaw the need that machines would eventually need to “talk” to machines. He was a major force in the creation of ASCII.  He pushed for things like making major proposals for content and form; writing many articles about ASCII; forcing the U.S. standard code to be identical to the international code and creating the program of work for the standards group evaluating it.

He also realized that what he was working on was just of subset of the world’s alphabets and symbols.  He also developed the universal switching concept, which is the basis for computer networking today.  He did this by placing the Escape key in ASCII and its alternatives. 

It can be said that Mr. Bemer is the founder of the Internet, not Al Gore, because of the switching concept he developed.

ITE 221 - Fall 2012 - Chapter 2

The chapter begins by discussing the development of automated computing. It describes the general capabilities of a computer, their functions and capabilities, It lists the computer system classes and their distinguishing characteristics. The chapter defines the roles, functions, and economics of application and system software and describes the components and functions of computer networks.

http://www.qubit.org/

This website is the home for The Centre of Quantum Computation. The Centre conducts various types of research in the field of quantum information processing.

This website was founded by members of the Clarendon Laboratory of the University of Oxford. This website is designed to provide valuable information to individuals, universities and corporations in the field of quantum computing and information processing.

The Centre also accepts arXiv submissions.  arXiv stands for “archive” which is an archive for electronic preprints of scientific articles in many disciplines.

The Centre offers courses in Physics, Computer Science and Mathematics. They also offer tutorials on Quantum Computing, Quantum Cryptography, Quantum Cryptoanalysis as well as many others.

This website also offers links to other research groups such as Comlab Quantum Group, Department of Computer Science, Quantum Computation and Cryptography, Department of Mathematics and the Philosophy of Physics, Department of Philosophy.  All of these research groups are located at the University of Oxford.

ITE 221 - Fall 2012 - Chapter 1

  The purpose is to describe the activities of information systems professionals; describe the technical knowledge of computer hardware and systems software needed to develop and manage information systems; and identify additional sources of information for continuing education in computer hardware and systems software.

http://www.aitp.org/

 

The Association for Information Technology Professionals (AITP) is an association with information for information business technology professionals. They offer educational services as well as scholarships for individuals. They have many different types of chapters such as a professional chapter, student chapter and high school chapters.

AITP links to Kahn Academy, an educational service that offers free classes to anyone. AITP also sponsors the National Collegiate Conference (NCC), a conference for collegiate IT students.

They offer scholarships to FITE (Foundation for Information Technology Education). FITE is a non-profit organization that provides educational programs and services to a variety of people including information technology professionals.

AITP also offer RHT (Robert Howard Taft) scholarships. These scholarships are valued at $2,500 and are awarded to two AITP Student members who are studying in the information technology field.  These scholarships are awarded every year at the AITP National Collegiate Conference. The 2012 AITP National Collegiate Conference is going to be held in San Antonio, Texas.