Presentation

We have covered several technical topics lately, and this assignment will focus on discussing some of the implications on individuals and societies of the their technological applications.
Working in groups of 3 students, you will develop a PowerPoint presentation that addresses one of the following topics/statements:

- Users are forced into buying expensive computers in order to sustain operating systems that do not give extended functionality. Open source operating systems would not require a constant upgrading.
- Most organizations or firms do not adequately address the issue of ergonomics and as such millions of dollars are lost every year as a consequence of repetitive stress injuries.
- In the future, most people will work from home and many important social interactions will be lost, as well as the ability to function as a team.
- Passwords are an unsafe and inadequate method to gain data access. Biometric recognition will be the standard in the near future, since affordable and accurate biometric recognition methods are now available.

Each presentation must address the above issues including external links, at least two multimedia elements (videos) linked from the presentation, and arrive at a conclusion with respect to the statement presented. You must email your finished presentation to itgs.sass@gmail.com by the end of teh lesson on Wednesday, April 21st.
During the first lesson, the plan for the presentation must be drawn up and approved. You will not actually start working on the presentation but rather identify how you will tackle it as well as finding the links and resources that you plan to include.

In order to learn about effective and ineffective PowerPoint presentations, we will browse the Death by PowerPoint presentation.

Search Engines Test

Answer all questions, save them to a Word file, name it with your surname and submit it to itgs.sass@gmail.com DO NOT LEAVE THE LAB UNTIL YOU HAVE CHECKED THAT I RECEIVED THE FILE. The questions have been written so that you are able to analyze and respond by demonstrating your mastery of the topics. PLEASE DO NOT COPY FROM WEB SITES. 1- A student at our computer lab is typing in the address www.yahoo.com. Explain in detail the internal process that takes place from that moment until the student gets the page loaded on the screen. 2- What criteria would you use to validate a web site? 3- A friend of yours wants to create a new search engine. Explain to him what he would need to do, including advice on how to make his search engine efficient in retrieving results. 4- What criteria are used to rate a search engine? 5- Can search engines be manipulated to individual or an organization’s advantage? How is that done? 6- What are search engine designers trying to achieve in terms of future capabilities of search engines?