Information Systems by bdunn02

What department-level government entity sponsored ARPANET, the original packet-switching network and a forbearer of the modern Internet?

It seems perhaps not coincidental that the Protestant reformation of the 16th century followed reasonably soon after the (local) invention of what information technology by a German goldsmith around 1440? (edited at 6:41 am, April 7, 2016 (PDT))

In what 1982 summer movie does Jeff Bridges star as a user trapped within a mainframe, fighting for the rights of oppressed programs against the tyranny of a despotic AI algorithm?

Great VVestern Bank just sent you an email explaining that it may have experienced a security breach and that it needs you to go to their website (link provided in the email) and log in with your account number and password to verify the status of your account. This is (probably) an example of what specific kind of electronic scam?

In conducting "big data" analysis, many data scientists will use both Hadoop and MapReduce over a service called AWS. What company owns and operates AWS?

Say you're currently in the following directory

C:\Mammals\Camels

If you enter the command "cd D:\Amphibians\Frogs", the current directory would become

D:\Amphibians\Frogs

If, instead, you entered "cd Alpacas" the following would become the current directory:

C:\Mammals\Camels\Alpacas

What would become the current directory if, instead of entering either of the above, you entered the command "cd .."?

First introduced by Microsoft in 2000, the C# programming language was designed to harmonize well with the company's .NET framework. How is the programming language's name pronounced?

Network effects, common in many IT-enabled markets (e.g., personal computers, video game consoles), can be explained to some extent using Metcalfe's Law. According to Metcalfe's Law, the value of a network can be determined using a certain formula. Using this idea of "value" and based on the Metcalfe's Law formula, what would be the value of a network with 100 nodes (members)?

Most of today's productivity software follows, to some degree at least, the principle of WYSIWYG. For what does the abbreviation WYSIWYG stand?

A Connecticut company's Palo Alto-based research group is credited with inventing the windows-based operating system, the mouse, and the laser printer. What company operated this research center?

What co-founder of Intel, in 1965 penned the IT axiom that the number of transistors that will fit on a dense integrated circuit board will double every two years?

Stuart Brand once expressed to Steve Wozniak that "information wants to be _____". This sentiment is said to apply, for instance, to the advent and pre-lawsuit success of the former MP3-sharing service Napster. What word fills the blank?