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Radio Frequency technology (RFID) uses electromagnetic fields to automatically identify and track tags attached to objects. RFID is a commonly used technology, in almost everything. Starting from credit cards and finishing with our food. Yes, food boxes also use RFID chips for tracking purposes in supply chain. Even if the product itself doesn’t have an RFID at some point of its life, when the product was in supply chain on its way to the costumers it had an RFID chip. We learn in this course about Disney’s 1 billion dollar investment in RFID technology. Disney decided to bring RFID watches for their customers at Disney World. With these watches customer can have access to all facilities and manage on what he wants to spend his time and money. Disney also from their end can monitor and control customer traffic for better customer experience and gather data for future business analytics.

When we talk about JavaScript being “event-driven”, it means that the output of the program is indicated by events, like user inputs (mouse clicks, pressing keys), and messages from other systems. It needs a catalyst in order to execute code. It can be thought of as a change from a neutral state to an excited state, like in chemistry.

In event-driven programs, there is a main loop that listens for events, and produces a callback loop when an event is detected. The program is able to identify events thanks to “event handlers”, also called subroutines or methods, and are designed to recognize specific events to respond to. Those event handlers have to be binded to the correct function so that they execute the corresponding code/actions.

Enterprise resource planning (ERP) is a system of software applications that manage daily business operations in various fields. Corporations providing a product or service use ERP to be efficient. ERP are mostly used to communicate between companies inner departments such as: production lines, accounting, logistics, management, marketing etc. ERP puts data in one system accessible for each department. Live updates from each of these departments makes daily operations smooth and accurate. ERP also helps company management to plan for future depending on data and perform business analysis. Efficiency is the one word that we can describe ERP with.
There are different types of ERPs: Tier I ERPs, Tier I Government ERPs, Tier II ERPs, Tier II Government ERPs, Tier III ERPs, and Tier IV ERPs. For most of the business, tier four ERP would work just fine. Sometimes going for the higher end ERP without actual need for it can damage a business. Lately smaller more industry specific oriented ERPs are being developed, and they compete with big major ERP providers. But until now most of the ERP market it divided between, Oracle, SAP, and Microsoft.

Hello class,

There are many ways to protect yourself online. in this class, we learned how to use paid password protection programs. In class activity, we learned how that normal passwords can be easily guessed by automated software. we learned to use different characters numbers and letters in our passwords. Another way of protecting our online information and privacy is to use two factor authentication to log in different accounts. I personally use my phone number to receive text messages when I log in. These text messages will contain a confirmation number that I must enter before logging in.

Alan Turing was an English mathematician and later computer scientist. he was born in London. he was a very smart man. He died very young at the age of 41. Unfortunately, back at that time, he was prosecuted for homosexual acts. He developed the Turing test in which a machine is tested if it has the ability to exhibit human intelligent behavior. This test was performed in 1950. Alan wants an answer to his question “Can a machine think?”. That was very early to that technology.

Here is a link to read more information about Alan Turing:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Turing

Like a physical identification documents, a digital ID is also a type of identification used in our everyday lives to identify us as individuals. Even our physical IDs are bind to a digital database that contains our credentials. Government officials keep those databases relatively safe, but we expose our personal date every day. Other than that, even social media profiles and emails can be used as a digital ID nowadays. Services such as Docusign allow users to sign digital documents without touching actual physical paper. In many business industries, customers and businesses make transactions between each other without seeing who in on another side of the screen or phone. Although digital ID makes such transactions convenient, it also rises risks. Digital ID can be fabricated or stolen. Risks go even further than just material damage. Moral questions arise about how much control and access does governments and IT corporations should have over those IDs.

Loops are used when you want to run your code multiple times. There are different types of loops you can use, including for, while, and do-while. Each of these loops is utilized for different purposes. For the for loop function, you would want to use it when you run the same code over again but with a different value. While loops are good when you want to perform a task over again when there is a condition that needs to be met. Do-while loops are good to use when you know you need to perform the loop at least once but aren’t entirely sure how many times that loop will need to be performed. There are three parts of a loop, the keyword that starts the loop, the condition, and the keyword that ends the loop. Each loop looks a little different as well. 

The for loop looks a bit like this:

Let num = 0

For ( let number =1, number <5; number++)

We worked on this in our last coding assignment as well. 

 

The while loop looks a bit like: 

Let num=0 

While (num > 3){

alert ();

Count++

}

And the do-while loop will look a bit like: 

Let count = 0;

Do{

alert();

Count++;

} while (count<7);

 

Hello class,

There are many advantages of using Digital Platforms. They increase access to both businesses and individuals. They lower costs by increasing data collection and analysis capabilities which ultimately save time. Thus, these platforms enhance user experience by providing many customization options to their dashboard’s menus. Moreover, many digital platforms are cloud-base which put them at risk of online malwares threads so security is one of the biggest concerns. One of the most recent data breaches was in 2021 on Facebook. Over half a billion users information were stolen such as addresses birthdays emails and phone numbers. Facebook was accused of illegal access to private data made by Cambridge Analytica. They agreed to settle a lawsuit to avoid more damages.

Here is the link for more information about the story:

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2022/aug/27/facebook-cambridge-analytica-data-breach-lawsuit-ends-in-11th-hour-settlement#:~:text=Facebook%20has%20dramatically%20agreed%20to,tech%20giant%20in%20repeated%20controversy.

 

API allows different systems and databases to integrate and automate processes. This integration is allowed by making many systems communicate with each other to find results.

Product managers are responsible of creating and maintaining successful products that meets or exceed customer expectations. Their responsibility includes the entire product life cycle from an idea to customer’s hands.

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