Digital Systems

Department of Management Information Systems, Temple University

Digital Systems

MIS 2101.701 ■ Spring 2024 ■ Marie-Christine Martin

Posts

AI: My Journey

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For my weekly blog post, I’m excited to share my journey into the world of Artificial Intelligence (AI). In simpler terms (get excited!) imagine smart computers that can learn and make decisions – well yup that’s AI! I’ll make the tech talk easy to follow, so breaking down machine learning and algorithms, to show how AI is changing our daily lives. AI also continues to develop, but we’ll focus on the now.
Let’s chat about why data is a big deal for these smart computers and how it impacts us. Plus, I’ll dive into the right and wrong of AI, discussing its mistakes and what some might call biases.
 
This isn’t just a class discussion; it’s my personal exploration into the fascinating world of AI. Join me on this journey as we uncover how smart machines are shaping our future in a way that’s easy to understand and exciting to explore!
 

1a Questions

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Weekly questions to consider when creating your posts. These questions are a jumping off point to asking your own questions, pose new ideas, and provide explanations and examples backed by careful analysis. Apply class concepts, terms, and theories too. Refer to Assignment 12 for additional details.

  • Explain the waterfall and agile SDLC, and the key differences between them.
  • What is MIS all about?
  • Explain the parts of a system that is involved with your everyday life. 
  • What are the 4 core processes of designing UX
  • Important acronyms to know
    • SDLC
    • API
    • ERP
    • UX
  • What is a system and what are the three components?
  • What does System analysis try to achieve?
    • Readings – System analysis
  • What is the core of all systems? 
  • What do MIS professionals do?

1b Questions

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Weekly questions to consider when creating your posts. These questions are a jumping off point to asking your own questions, pose new ideas, and provide explanations and examples backed by careful analysis. Apply class concepts, terms, and theories too. Refer to Assignment 12 for additional details.

  • Why are we learning Salesforce in this course? 2.1
  • What are the benefits of creating a database in Salesforce? 2.1
  • What are all the symbols used in swim lane diagrams, and what does each represent? 2. 1
    • Circle, rectangle, diamond, arrow, cylinder
    • Actors 
  • Remember: actors don’t have specific names – (identify the role/job function).
  • What is Process mapping and why do we use it? 2.1
  • The following swim lane has four mistakes in it, locate and correct the issues.
  • What are the benefits of swim lanes?

2a Questions

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Weekly questions to consider when creating your posts. These questions are a jumping off point to asking your own questions, pose new ideas, and provide explanations and examples backed by careful analysis. Apply class concepts, terms, and theories too. Refer to Assignment 12 for additional details.

  • What is an ERD?
  • What are the two notations for ERD’s?
  • What are the primary symbols?
    • Entity, Attribute, Relationship
  • What are the different relationships in crow’s foot notation, and how do you express those relationships?
  • ERD tables – key things?
  • What is Salesforce?
  • What are Dynamic Dashboards and what are their functions? 
  • What are the types of cardinality and how are they utilized?

2b Questions

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Weekly questions to consider when creating your posts. These questions are a jumping off point to asking your own questions, pose new ideas, and provide explanations and examples backed by careful analysis. Apply class concepts, terms, and theories too. Refer to Assignment 12 for additional details.

  • What is your digital identity, and what can you do to manage that identity?
  • Why is it important to have a good digital identity?
  • What is the MIS community platform?
  • What is the purpose of building an e-portfolio?

3a Questions

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Weekly questions to consider when creating your posts. These questions are a jumping off point to asking your own questions, pose new ideas, and provide explanations and examples backed by careful analysis. Apply class concepts, terms, and theories too. Refer to Assignment 12 for additional details.

  • Important acronyms to know:
    • ERP
    • CRM
  • What is the purpose of ERP?
  • What are some of the issues with legacy systems?
  • What is the purpose of a CRM?
  • Who uses CRMs?
  • What are the similarities and differences between ERP and CRM?
  • What do velocity and veracity mean, and how do they relate to data integrity?

3b Questions

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Weekly questions to consider when creating your posts. These questions are a jumping off point to asking your own questions, pose new ideas, and provide explanations and examples backed by careful analysis. Apply class concepts, terms, and theories too. Refer to Assignment 12 for additional details.

  • What are descriptive and predictive analytics?
  • What separates data from big data?
  • Why do companies use big data?
  • What is business intelligence, and how does it help companies?
  • What are the differences between OLTP vs. OLAP, and what are some examples of each?
    • What are the types of data?
  • What are the sources of data?
  • What is supply chain management and how does it affect businesses?
    • Why are supply chains fragile?
  • What is RFID, and how does it help supply chain management?

4a Questions

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Weekly questions to consider when creating your posts. These questions are a jumping off point to asking your own questions, pose new ideas, and provide explanations and examples backed by careful analysis. Apply class concepts, terms, and theories too. Refer to Assignment 12 for additional details.
What are the pros of using Digital Platforms?

  • What is a network effect and what are some examples?
  • What are the pros and cons of Cloud computing?
  • What are the differences between SaaS, PaaS, IaaS?
  • What are APIs, and how do APIs build value?
    • Think back to the ICA!
  • Who are product managers and what do they do?

4b Questions

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Weekly questions to consider when creating your posts. These questions are a jumping off point to asking your own questions, pose new ideas, and provide explanations and examples backed by careful analysis. Apply class concepts, terms, and theories too. Refer to Assignment 12 for additional details.

  • What is threat modeling?
  • What are some regulations involved with data protection and cybersecurity?
  • What is Ransomware, and why are hospitals often targeted?
  • What are some methods to protect yourself online?
  • What are the three types of artificial intelligence, and what are some examples of each?
  • Who is Alan Turing, and what is the Turing test used for?

5a Questions

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Weekly questions to consider when creating your posts. These questions are a jumping off point to asking your own questions, pose new ideas, and provide explanations and examples backed by careful analysis. Apply class concepts, terms, and theories too. Refer to Assignment 12 for additional details.

  • What is a variable in JavaScript, and how do you create one?
  • How do you initialize a variable? 
    • What is the difference between initialized and declared?
  • What are the rules associated with naming a variable?
  • What are the arithmetic operators in JavaScript, and what do they all do?
  • What is concatenation, and what are the concatenation operators?
  • What is the line of code used to prompt a user for a response?