Introduction to IT

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Introduction to IT

• Presented by
• Ishan Agarwal
• ABV-IIITM, Gwalior

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e-commerce

• Electronic commerce, commonly known as
  e-commerce, consists of the buying and selling of
  products or services over electronic systems such
  as the Internet and other computer networks.

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e-commerce cont.

• Some common applications related to electronic
  commerce are the following
• Content Management Systems
• Accounting and finance systems
• Orders and shipment information
• Enterprise and client information reporting
• Domestic and international payment systems
• On-line Shopping
• email and messaging

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Multimedia

• Multimedia represents the convergence of text,
  pictures, video and sound into a single form.
• A site with a specific purpose can use Multimedia
  to make it more attractive to user.

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Multimedia Cont.

• Multimedia Applications
• Distance and interactive training
• CAD/CAM
• Air traffic control
• Public Digital libraries
• business/Office Executive information systems
• Remote consulting systems
• Video conferencing
• Multimedia documents
• Advertising
• Electronic publishing

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e-governance

• Electronic Governance is the application of
  Information Technology to bring SMART governance.
  
• The Indian government is using IT to facilitate
  governance. The IT industry is doing its bit to
  help as public-private partnerships become the
  order of the day.

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e-governance

• IT enables the delivery of government services as
  it caters to a large base of people across
  different segments and geographical locations.
• The effective use of IT services in government
  administration can greatly enhance existing
  efficiencies, drive down communication costs, and
  increase transparency in the functioning of
  various departments.
• It provides citizens easy access to tangible
  benefits, be it through simple applications such
  as online form filling, bill sourcing and
  payments, or complex applications like distance
  education and tele-medicine.

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Robotics

• Robotics requires a working knowledge of
  electronics, mechanics and software.
• The commonly used programming language for robots
  is labview.
• All robotic applications need parallelism and
  event-based programming.

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Robotics Cont.

• Robots are used in welding as arc welding and
  plasma cutting.
• In material handling like loading and unloading
  of heavy machines and goods.
• Except this they are also used in Robotic
  Assembling, Drilling etc.

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Artificial Intelligence

• Artificial intelligence, by claiming to be able
  to recreate the capabilities of the human mind,
  is a both challenge and an inspiration for IT
  industry.

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Artificial Intelligence Cont.

• game playing
• speech recognition
• computer vision
• expert systems
• heuristic classification

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Wireless Networking

• Wireless telecommunications networks are
  generally implemented with some type of remote
  information transmission system that uses
  electromagnetic waves.
• Cellular phones are part of huge wireless network
  systems.
• Also in battle field this technology is used for
  communication. walkie-talkie is an example of
  this type of communication.

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Speech Processing

• Speech processing refers to the acquisition,
  manipulation, storage, transfer and output of
  human utterances by a computer. The main goals
  are the recognition, synthesis and compression of
  human speech.
• Voice security systems are example of this
  technology.

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Web 2.0

• Web 2.0 is a term describing changing trends in
  the use of World Wide Web technology and web
  design that aim to enhance creativity,
  information sharing, and collaboration among
  users.
• Rich-Internet application techniques such as
  AJAX, Adobe Flash, Flex, Java, Silverlight and
  Curl have evolved that have the potential to
  improve the user-experience in browser-based
  applications.

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Dot Net

• The Microsoft .NET Framework is a software
  technology that is available with several
  Microsoft Windows operating systems. It includes
  a large library of pre-coded solutions to common
  programming problems.
• Languages that are supported by this platform to
  develop software are C, J, Visual C, VB.Net,
  ASP.Net.

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Linux

• The name "Linux" comes from the Linux kernel,
  originally written in 1991 by Linus Torvalds.
• It is a free open source software.
• The system's utilities and libraries usually come
  from the GNU operating system, this contribution
  is the basis for the alternative name GNU/Linux.

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XML

• XML stands for Extensible Markup Language.
• It is classified as an extensible language
  because it allows its users to define their own
  elements.