This document outlines the topics covered in different weeks for an IDES 2105 Computer Applications course. Week 1 covers human computers and genetic/social algorithms. Week 2 covers machine hardware, heuristics, and algorithms. Week 3 discusses machine software, the internet, W3 standards, and online marketing. Week 4 focuses on frameworks like the innovator's dilemma. Week 5 is about graphics, media, the Utah teapot, and robots/automation. Week 6 examines artificial intelligence, supercomputers, cognitive pathways, and machine learning. Additional sections cover media and entertainment applications, mesh models/environments, live action and CGI, and reproduction in media. The artificial intelligence section discusses key applications like supercomputers, big data, and Moore

1. IDES 2105 Computer Applications
Week 2
Machine Hardware
–Heuristic
–Algotithms
–Basic Hardware
Week 1
Human Computers
–Genetic Algorithms
–Social Algotithms
Week 3
Machine Software
–Internet
–W3 Standards
–Online Marketing
Week 5
Graphics & Media
–Utah Teapot
–Mesh & Solids
–Robots & Automation
Week 4
Frameworks
–Innovator’s Dilemma
–Strategy Paradox
–Knowledge Funnel
Week 6
Artificial Intelligence
–Supercomputers
–Cognitive Pathways
–Machine Learning

2. IDES 2105 Computer Applications
Media & Entertainment
Applications
- Animation
- Gaming
- Music
Key Features
- Reproduction (copy)
- Resolution (fidelity)
- Rapid (bandwidth)

3. IDES 2105 Computer Applications
Media & Entertainment
Mesh Models

4. IDES 2105 Computer Applications
Media & Entertainment
Mesh Environments

5. IDES 2105 Computer Applications
Media & Entertainment
Live Action + CGI

6. IDES 2105 Computer Applications
Media & Entertainment
Reproduction

7. IDES 2105 Computer Applications
Artificial Intelligence
Key Applications
• Supercomputers Math & Algorythms
• Big Data Probability
• Moore’s Law Quantum Computers

8. IDES 2105 Computer Applications
Artificial Intelligence
Super Computer
Systems with massive numbers of processors generally take one of two paths:
1. In one approach (e.g., in distributed computing), a large number of
discrete computers (e.g., laptops) distributed across a network
2. In another approach, a large number of dedicated processors are placed in
close proximity to each other (e.g. in a computer cluster); this saves
considerable time moving data around and makes it possible for the
processors to work together (rather than on separate tasks), for example in
mesh and hypercube architectures. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Super_computer

9. IDES 2105 Computer Applications
Artificial Intelligence
Dedicated System

10. IDES 2105 Computer Applications
Artificial Intelligence
Distributed System

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Artificial Intelligence
Moore’s Law
• Moore's law is the observation that, over the history of
computing hardware, the number of transistors on integrated
circuits doubles approximately every two years.
• Although this trend has continued for more than half a
century, Moore's law should be considered an observation or
conjecture and not a physical or natural law. Sources in 2005
expected it to continue until at least 2015
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Super_computer

12. IDES 2105 Computer Applications
Artificial Intelligence
Nanotechnology
National Nanotechnology Initiative, defines nanotechnology as the
manipulation of matter with at least one dimension sized from 1 to 100
nanometers. This definition reflects the fact that quantum mechanical effects are
important at this quantum-realm scale, and so the definition shifted from a
particular technological goal to a research category inclusive of all types of
research and technologies that deal with the special properties of matter that
occur below the given size threshold http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nanotechnology
Quantum Computing
is a computation device that makes direct use of quantum-mechanical
phenomena, such as superposition and entanglement, to perform operations.
Whereas digital computers require data to be encoded into binary digits (bits),
each of which is always in one of two definite states (0 or 1), quantum
computation uses qubits (quantum bits), which can be in superposition's of
states http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_computing

13. IDES 2105 Computer Applications
Science & Technology