Exam 8: Emerging Technologies

The wall of a single-walled carbon nanotube is only one carbon atom thick and the tube diameter is approximately ____ times smaller than a human hair.

Most people agree that nanotechnology involves creating computer components, machines, and other structures that are less than ____ nanometers in size.

____ displays are transparent; the portion of the display that does not currently have an image displayed (and the entire display device when it is off)is nearly as transparent as glass, so the user can see through the screen.

Perceptual computing uses special glasses, similar to Google Glass or MIT's Magic Glass, to see the output.

Self-driving cars, like Google's autonomous cars, are essentially __________.

For memory improvements, several forms of nonvolatile RAM (NVRAM)are becoming available or are under development. Please briefly define & describe MRAM, PRAM, and NRAM. Also explain some current and future applications for NVRAM.

Case-Based Critical Thinking Questions Case 8-1 Sam is putting together a presentation in which she explains how holographic storage works. Researchers recently demonstrated the ability to store data  __________ in synthetic crystals, which may eventually lead to a disc that can store 360 TB of data and be stable enough to essentially last forever.

A(n)____ network, like the one used by the technology in the accompanying figure, is designed to emulate the brain's pattern-recognition process in order to recognize patterns in data and make more progressive leaps in associations and predictions than conventional computer systems.

Case-Based Critical Thinking Questions Case 8-1 Sam is putting together a presentation in which she explains how holographic storage works. In her presentation, Sam explains that, to record data, holographic storage systems split the light from a blue laser beam into two beams, and that it is the ____ beam whose angle determines the address used to store data at that particular location on the storage medium.

____ is one of the Wi-Fi standards most widely used today.

Intelligent Agents called voicebots carry on written "conversations" with people in a natural language. _________________________

A(n)____________________ projector typically connects to a smartphone or portable computer to enable the device to project an image onto a wall or other flat surface.

For memory improvements, several forms of volatile RAM are becoming available or are under development. _________________________

Quantum computers differ from conventional computers in that they utilize atoms or nuclei working together as quantum bits or qubits . _________________________

The inference engine component of an expert system is a software program that applies the rules to the data stored in the knowledge base in order to reach decisions.

Please describe the following Intelligent Agents and the functions they serve: Application assistants, Shopping bots, Entertainment bots, and Chatterbots.

Ethernet is the least common wired networking protocol.

____ mobile payments use RFID to facilitate communication between devices, including transferring payment information, receipts, boarding passes, and other information wirelessly between payment terminals and mobile phones.

Because IMOD displays use external light, images are bright and clear even in direct sunlight.

With holographic storage systems, the signal beam passes through a device called a ____ light modulator (SLM), which translates the data's 0s and 1s into a hologram.