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Questions?

ANNOUNCEMENTS & ASSIGNMENTS:

First Exam: Two weeks away (Oct 9).  Be on time or lose points!  Exam will cover anything presented in lecture, lab, and readings online and in the textbook.  Old Exams are online.

Websites of the Week: National Center for Biotechnology Information, TED (Technology Entertainment Design) Talks: view Michael Schermer's Talk

Preview of Lab Next Two Weeks:
This week:  Finish any leftover Power Point Presentations (questions?).  File and folder management on diskettes and FTP.  Remember: Do not put things you want to keep private in your public_html directory.
Next Week: Working with Unix command line, and safe fast email client pine.

Reading: CD Players,  Sound coded as bits, Laser Printers, Scanners, Optical character readers.

Text Sections 4-6 (pages 24-45)

LECTURE:

System board & Chip Manufacture handouts

Difference between Memory and Storage, and Units

Types of Data

Graphing Exercise #1

Video: How Bill Gates became the richest man in the world