CSIT 301: Week of 1/14/12

CSIT 301: The Week beginning Jan. 14

Homework:

In a single Word document (which you can email)
- Read and summarize (in your own words) three of the following articles. Your combined summaries should be at least one page, double spaced.
  - Internet pioneer and information activist takes his own life (Ars technica)
  - Power saving through marketing: Intel's “7 watt” Ivy Bridge CPUs (Ars technica)
  - OWC is readying a 2TB, 3.5-inch form-factor workstation SSD for 2013 (Ars technica)
  - Samsung’s new eight-core Exynos 5 Octa SoC promises not to hog battery (Ars technica)
- 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. 23
Wednesday

Syllabus
Basic Units of Computer Architecture
Instructions from the Bottom Up