eCommerce and Online Banking and Downloading Music


"Describe common contemporary applications, including web logs, instant messaging, virtual learning environments and ecommerce: the downloading of music, on-line auctions, on-line-banking, on-line shopping"

eCommerce
Write several paragraphs detailing what eCommerce involves. Include each of the following: what eCommerce is, the advantages, the disadvantages and the developments in technology that have led to the growth in this type of business.

Read each of the recent news articles and write several paragraphs outlining the problem of illegal downloading for the industry’s point of view and from an individual’s point of view.  


Online Banking

Write several paragraphs detailing what online banking involves. Also give the advantages and disadvantages to the bank and the advantages and disadvantages to the customer.
OR
Complete the worksheet:  Online Banking using this website Theory

Downloading Music
Record labels criticise Google over illegal downloads

Describe the problem of illegal downloads from the point of view of the industry. Outline some opinions of the general public on this issue.

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Expert Systems


  Experts are valuable to an organisation, they possess knowledge that is the key to the successful operation of the organisation.  By their nature they are few in number, can be expensive and may be difficult to replace.

 Expert systems have been developed to resolve the shortage of expert personnel.  They are computer systems, which embody some of the experience and specialised knowledge of an expert and hence mimic the expert and act as a consultant in a particular area.

  They are usually limited to a particular area of expertise and are often
rule-based.  They give advice to users and even explain its reasoning but they do not make decisions.

 Task 1

Use the link below to create a presentation giving a clear overview of expert systems:

Expert Systems Theory

Task 2

Investigate the two examples below then add a description of each to your presentation:

Example:Whale Watching

Example:Medical Diagnosis


Task 3

From the shared area find exam question in June 2010 paper. Answer the questions, making sure to extend your answers to get full marks.

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Computing and the Disabled

ICT and The Disabled various interface designs

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Types of Languages


Types of Language mini website

Task 1

Complete a table containing the features fo each of the types of language. Use the link above to find your information.


Include a general description and the some of the pros and cons.

Task 2

Research task - Fourth Generation Languages

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Contemporary Biometrics

"Describe the purpose and use of contemporary biometrics,
including iris and retina scans, fingerprint recognition, face
recognition, voiceprint recognition."

Task 1

Biometrics in the news

Choose three of the news stories from the link above and summarise the main points.

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Distributed databases

Distributed Databases

Describe distributed databases and the advantages of such
distribution.

Distributed Databases theory

Use the link above to make a presentation about distributed databases. Describe the different approaches, security and the advantages and disadvantages of using them.

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Databases

Task 1

Answer the True/False questions on the sheet.
Use this link Database theory


Task 2

Watch the two videos Data Mining and Data Warehousing then write a clear description of both concepts

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