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assignment 3 bib

http://www.citeulike.org/user/briarrz_scarlett

Week 6 Readings

This week, I found the reading to much easier than the past several weeks.The local area network article was just the basics of small area computer networking. The Computer Networking post described the factors of computer networking, scale, connection method, functional relationship, and network topology.The youtube post of common types of computer networks indicated the different types of networks from personal area to metropolitan area networks. The one that I am most familiar with is campus are network. Where I went to undergrad had massive problems with networks, theirs kept crashing, especially on registration days.

Muddiest point week 5

Are visual perceptions frequent in any other computer operations other than visual imaging?

week 4 comments

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muddiest point week 4

In regards to the lecture on databases, how easily can integrated databases be manipulated and confused between the users?

week 5 readings

Data compression article: This article descirbed data compression as encoding information using fewer bits that an unencoded representation would use through use of specific encoding schemes. It also said that encoding only works if the sender and the receiver use the same language. Data compressing is useful because it "reduces the expensive resources" like hard disks. The downside of data compression is that it must be decompressed which might hurt some applications.There are two kinds of compression, lossless and lossy. Lossless has less errors than lossy.

Data compression basics: This article basically describes encoding as short hand for the computer. While in most cases it is short hand, it can make the data longer than the original. For me, encoding is confusing. The data means the same thing but is shown different.

Imaging Pittsburgh: In 2002 the University of Pittsburgh received a grant from the Institute of Museum & Library Services to create a "shared gateway to visual image collection over Pittsburgh region". The grant helped to create a collection of Pittsburgh and local people throught the years. The project took two years and was a great success.

YouTube and libraries: I never thought about using YouTube to promote libaries but I guess it can be done. The article also says that you can advertise new material and put a link on the video to go to the library web site. So many people use youtube that it would be easy to get the public to see your youtube video.