t is my pleasure to welcome you to the academic year that looms before us like one of the mythical lands on Odysseus’s journey: unknown‚ a little scary‚ and full of promise for the intellectual adventurer. This is the seventh year that convocation has included a lecture on Homer’s Odyssey. For parents who read the text over the summer‚ I hope to provide one focus for your conference discussion tomorrow. And as a quick aside: for those of you who haven’t quite finished‚ jump ahead to book XXII and
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Seat No.: ________ Enrolment No.______________ GUJARAT TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY B. E. - SEMESTER – VII • EXAMINATION – WINTER 2012 Subject code: 170704 Subject Name: Advanced Computing Technology Time: 10.30 am - 01.00 pm Date: 27/12/2012 Total Marks: 70 Instructions: 1. Attempt any five questions. 2. Make suitable assumptions wherever necessary. 3. Figures to the right indicate full marks. Q.1 (a) Explain various parallel computer architectures in detail. (b) Explain
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Baseline Security Analyzer (MBSA) to detect the patches and updates that may be missing from your current installation. MBSA compares your installation to a list of currently available updates maintained in an XML file. MBSA can download the XML file when it scans your server or you can manually download the file to the server or make it available on a network server. Step 2. IISLockdown The IISLockdown tool helps you to automate certain security steps. IISLockdown greatly reduces the vulnerability of
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MANAGER IS A CHANGE AGENT The label “change agent” is often accompanied by misunderstanding‚ cynicism and stereotyping. Managers‚ employees and HR professionals alike have questioned the value of this role in their organization. However‚ as organizations of all kinds face unrelenting changes in their environment‚ the need for individuals who are capable of turning strategy into reality has created a new legitimacy for the change agent role – which is often located within the Human Resource function
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Chapter 1 Discussion Questions 1. Do you agree that it is important for managers to understand IT? Write a paragraph to support your opinion. Answer: It is extremely important that managers understand IT. This is not only the case for IT‚ but for any department that the managers may not be intimately knowledgeable about. Without leadership understand your department‚ they may not understand why certain actions are taken and why additional costs need to be spent to achieve business goals. IT departments
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EFFECTS OF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY ON CUSTOMERS’ SATISFACTION IN NIGERIAN FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS. By ERNEST E. INYANG‚ A. D. O. OTONKUE AND JUDE U. BASSEY ABSTRACT Information technology may be considered to be the harnessing of electronic technology in its various forms to improve the operations and profitability of the business as a whole. Information Technology provides significant improvements with facilities such as word processing (improving secretarial‚ typing and some reprographic
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INTRODUCTION: Information and communication technologies (ICTs) have the potential to enhance access‚ quality‚ and effectiveness in education in general and to enable the development of more and better teachers. As computer hardware becomes available to an increasing number of schools‚ more attention needs to be given to the capacity building of the key transformers in this process‚ namely‚ teachers. ICT is technology that supports activities involving information. Such activities include gathering
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101-017 2/8/2012 How Information Technology is Changing the World Right Before Our Eyes 1. Opening Information technology affects almost every aspect of our everyday lives in today’s modern world. Everywhere you look you will see some form of information technology that is helping our lives. One part of our world that is gravely affected by information technology is the business world. Some simple examples of how information technology affects the business world are how companies are able
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Broad Topic: Technology and Change Narrowed Topic: How technology and change manipulates everyday life. Technology can be defined as the application of information in the design‚ production and utilization of goods and services‚ and in the organisation of human activities. It has become the beacon for everyday life as everywhere we turn and every time we blink it’s some type of technology or the other we are facing. It surrounds us each and every day whether we like it or not. When
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Rate = 25% 5) Discount Rate = 11% You must compute and analyze items (a) through (h) using a Microsoft Excel spreadsheet. Make sure that all calculations can be seen in the background of the applicable spreadsheet cells. In other words‚ leave an audit trail so that others can see how you arrived at your calculations and analysis. Items (i)‚ (j)‚ and (k) should be submitted in Microsoft Word. c. A 5-year projected income statement d. A
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