CSIT 301: The Week beginning Jan. 19

• Homework:
  
  In a single Word document (which you can email)
  • Read and summarize (in your own words) the following articles
    Data Analysts Captivated by R’s Power (This is New York Times article, if you have problems with this link, use the library's Proquest database to find this article by Ashlee Vance.)
    Nearly 1 million jobs could be created by IT stimulus package, think tank says
    What killed Vista will make Windows 7 fly
  • Paste a screen capture of the System Information summary into your homework document. (Look up System Information in the computer's Help or run the msinfo32.exe command.) (Ask me if you don't know how to make a screen capture. It's very simple and very useful.)
  • Define the following terms found on the system information summary: BIOS, physical memory, virtual memory, and page file space. (Cite any source you use.)
  
  
  Due: Jan. 27
  
  
• Class:
  
  Syllabus
  Hardware Overview
  Hardware Overview (cont.)
  PCI, System Resources, COM and LPT ports