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Assignment on Introduction to Emerging Technology for Weekend

Accounting, BUMA and Economics 1st Year Students
Explain each Briefly and clearly
1 Explain the term Technology and write at least five functions of Technology
2 List at least five currently available emerged technologies
3 Write the three data processing cycles and explain it
4 mention all the steps of data value chain and explain the steps clearly
5 what is artificial intelligence and list the goals of artificial intelligence
6 write at least five advantages of artificial intelligence
7 Write the definition of Internet of things (IoT) and explain the advantages and dis
advantages of it
8 Mention the application of Internet of things (IoT)
9 Define the term Virtual reality (VR), Augmented Reality (AR) vs Mixed reality
(MR
10 Describe the application of Augmented Reality(AR)
11 Write all the General ethical principles
12 write the difference between digital privacy and information privacy
13 Discuss the application of nanotechnology
14 Explain some risks of Emerging Technology
15 What is communication privacy and in what methods it can be interpreted
ANSWERS:
1.Originally the word technology is drived from Greek words,techne
meaning "science of craft",and logia meaning "art,skill". technology is the
sum of techniques, skills, methods and processes used in the production of
goods or services or in the accomplishment of objectives, such as scientific
investigation.
(a) for communication
(b) office productivity
(c) for record keeping
(d) for internate and search
(e) for automation, robotics and future factories
2.(a) Artificial Intelligence
(b) Blockchain
(c)Augmented Reality and Virtual Reality
(d) Cloud Computing
(e) Angular and React
3.(a) Input − in this step, the input data is prepared in some convenient
form for processing.The form will depend on the processing machine.
(b)Processing − in this step, the input data is changed to produce data in
a more useful form.For example, interest can be calculated on deposit to a
bank, or a summary of sales for the month can be calculated from the sales
orders.
(c) Output − at this stage, the result of the proceeding processing step is
collected. The particular form of the output data depends on the use of the
data. For example, output data may be payroll for employees.
4.(a)Data Acquisition: It is the process of gathering, filtering, and
cleaning data before it is put in a data warehouse or any other storage
solution on which data analysis can be carried out. Data acquisition is one
of the major big data challenges in terms of infrastructure requirements.
(b)Data Analysis: It is concerned with making the raw data acquired
amenable to use in decision-making as well as domain-specific usage.
(c)Data Curation: It is the active management of data over its life cycle
to ensure it meets the necessary data quality requirements for its effective
usage. Data curation processes can be categorized into different activities
such as content creation, selection, classification, transformation,
validation, andpreservation.
5.Artificial Intelligence is composed of two words Artificial and Intelligence.
Artificial defines "man-made," and intelligence defines "thinking power", or
“the ability to learn and solve problems” hence Artificial Intelligence means
"a man-made thinking power."
Goals of artificial intelligence
Replicate human intelligence
 Solve Knowledge-intensive tasks
 An intelligent connection of perception and action
 Building a machine which can perform tasks that requires human intelligence
such as:
 Proving a theorem
 Playing chess
 Plan some surgical operation
 Driving a car in traffic
6. High Accuracy with fewer errors:
 High-Speed:
 High reliability:.
 Useful for risky areas:
 Digital Assistant
7.IoT is the interaction of everyday object’s computing devices through the Internet that
enables the sending and receiving of useful data.
Advantages
*Improved Customer Engagement − Current analytics suffer from blind-spots and
significant flaws inaccuracy; and as noted, engagement remains passive.
*Technology Optimization − The same technologies and data which improve the
customer experience also improve device use, and aid in more potent improvements to
technology.IoT unlocks a world of critical functional and field data.
*Reduced Waste − IoT makes areas of improvement clear. Current analytics give us
superficial insight, but IoT provides real-world information leading to the more effective
management of resources.
*Enhanced Data Collection − Modern data collection suffers from its limitations and its
design for passive use.
Disadvantages
• As the number of connected devices increases and more information is shared between
devices, the potential that a hacker could steal confidential information also increases.
• If there’s a bug in the system, it’s likely that every connected device will become
corrupted.
• Since there’s no international standard of compatibility for IoT, it’s difficult for devices
from different manufacturers to communicate with each other.
• Enterprises may eventually have to deal with massive numbers maybe even millions of
IoT devices and collecting and managing the data from all those devices will be
challenging.
8.*Insurance - Even the insurance industry can benefit from the IoT revolution.
Insurance companies can offer their policyholders discounts for IoT wearables such as
Fitbit
*Manufacturing - The world of manufacturing and industrial automation is another big
winner in the IoT sweepstakes
*Transportation - By this time, most people have heard about the progress being made
with selfdriving cars. But that’s just one bit of the vast potential in the field of
transportation.
9. is fully immersive, which tricks your senses into thinking you’re in a different
environment or world apart from the real world. Using a head-mounted display (HMD)
or headset, you’ll experience a computer-generated world of imagery and sounds in
which you can manipulate objects and move around using haptic controllers while
tethered to a console or PC.
10.*Augment in education
*Augment in medicine
*Augment in entertainment
*Augment in games
*Augment in music
11.(a) Contribute to society and to human well-being, acknowledging that all people are
stakeholders in computing.
(b) Avoid harm.
(c) Be honest and trustworthy.
(d) Be fair and take action not to discriminate
(e) Respect the work required to produce new ideas, inventions, creative works, and
computing artifacts.
(f) Respect privacy.
(g) Honor confidentiality
12.Digital Privacy is the protection of personally identifiable or business identifiable
information that is collected from respondents through information collection activities
or from other sources while information privacy is the notion that individuals should
have the freedom, or right, to determine how their digital information, mainly that
pertaining to personally identifiable information, is collected and used.
13.➢ Medicine: customized nanoparticles the size of molecules that can deliver drugs
directly to diseased cells in your body. When it's perfected, this method should greatly
reduce the damage treatment such as chemotherapy does to a patient's healthy cells.
➢ Electronics: it has some answers for how we might increase the capabilities of
electronics devices while we reduce their weight and power consumption.
➢ Food: it has an impact on several aspects of food science, from how food is grown to
how it is packaged. Companies are developing nanomaterials that will make a difference
not only in the taste of food but also in food safety and the health benefits that food
delivery.
➢ Agriculture: nanotechnology can possibly change the whole agriculture part and
nourishment industry anchor from generation to preservation, handling, bundling,
transportation, and even waste treatment.
➢ Vehicle manufacturers: Much like aviation, lighter and stronger materials will be
valuable for making vehicles that are both quicker and more secure. Burning motors will
likewise profit from parts that are all the more hardwearing and higher temperature
safe.
14.
15.In the context of digital privacy, communication privacy is the notion that individuals
should have the freedom, or right, to communicate information digitally with the
expectation that their communications are secure; meaning that messages and
communications will only be accessible to the sender's original intended recipient.