Assignment 5 / midterm

The country I targeted is China and I related my initial idea to preserving endangered wildlife, which I then further narrowed to specifically focus on Pandas. The application idea I came up with is called the Panda Locator. Functions of the application would include locations of Pandas in their natural habitats; this would also further assist in the protection of them from poachers and such. Another function will include Habits of the animal including, sleeping, eating, and travel patterns. Also included is a population tracker to monitor growth rates, average age, and birth rates. The final function of the application is a stream of fun and interesting facts about Pandas not commonly known. The implementation of this idea is easily within grasp as there is already extreme scrutiny over the endangered Panda population, access to knowledge pertaining to facts, numbers, populations, and statistical data is already readily available and need only be used in conjunction with an application to support it.

Assignment 4

The semantic web is an extension of the web bringing structure to meaningful content and creating a space where software can readily carry out sophisticated tasks for users, better enabling computers and people to cooperate. In the future developments will continue to thrive and significant leaps will be made in functionality as computers become better at processing and understanding the data that today they only display. To function computers need access to structured sets of inference rules they use to conduct automated reasoning. There are 3 essential technologies involved in the semantic web, 1^st being  eXtensible Markup Language lets everyone create their own tags to annotate webpages, giving you the ability to add structure, 2^nd being Resource Description Framework which gives the structures created meaning , and the 3^rd collections of information called ontologies used to compare and combine information.

assignment 3 pt 2

1.       Find a ranked list of 20 largest cities all over the world. Enter your own keyword(s) at two or three different search engines and see what comes back. Are the results different among search engines?

1. Tokyo, Japan - 32,450,000

2. Seóul, South Korea - 20,550,000

3. Mexico City, Mexico - 20,450,000

4. New York City, USA - 19,750,000

5. Mumbai, India - 19,200,000

6. Jakarta, Indonesia - 18,900,000

7. Sáo Paulo, Brazil - 18,850,000

8. Delhi, India - 18,680,000

9. Õsaka/Kobe, Japan - 17,350,000

10. Shanghai, China - 16,650,000

11. Manila, Philippines - 16,300,000

12. Los Angeles, USA - 15,250,000

13. Calcutta, India - 15,100,000

14. Moscow, Russian Fed. - 15,000,000

15. Cairo, Egypt - 14,450,000

16. Lagos, Nigeria - 13,488,000

17. Buenos Aires, Argentina - 13,170,000

18. London, United Kingdom - 12,875,000

19. Beijing, China - 12,500,000

20. Karachi, Pakistan - 11,800,000

www. Worldatlas.com/citypops  was the top result among 3 of the top search engines

2.       Find 2-3 sites sell Samsung 3D HDTV in between $800 and $1200.

www.best-deal.com

www.bestbuy.com

www.amazon.com

3.       Convert 1 USD into RMB (Chinese Yuan). What’s the currency?

6.3851

4.       Find a list of MS Word documents talking about internet protocols.

http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfcxx00.html

5.       Find a recipe of your favorite dish.

http://allrecipes.com/Recipe/Chicken-Alfredo/detail.aspx

6.       What are the top 5 movies on the Internet Movie Database (IMDb)? How about the bottom 5?

Top-

The shawshank redemption

The godfather 1

The godfather 2

The good the bad and the ugly

Pulp fiction

Bottom –

Superbabies: Baby geniuses 2

Daniel the wizard

Manos: the hands of fate

Dream well

Monster a-go go

7.       Who was the first female computer programmer? For what was she famous?

Ada Lovelace, was famous for her work on early mechanical general purpose computer the analytical engine, her notes on the engine include the first algorithm processed by a machine.

8.       Who was the first U.S. president to be born in a hospital?

Jimmy carter the 39^th president

9.       Find a list of webcams that are located in UMass Lowell.

10.   What are the differences between JPG and GIF files?

The JPG extension stands for Joint Photographic Experts Group. It is a compressed version of a BMP, so an image loses detail when saved in JPG format. The software determines which details are too small for the human eye to see. It then discards that information and creates the JPG file, because there's a loss of detail.

The GIF extension stands for Graphics Interchange Format. A GIF is another form of a compressed BMP. An image saved as a GIF retains all of its detail because "lossless compression" is used. Lossless means no information is lost when you save the image.

wikileaks assignment 3 pt1

Wikileaks is a non profit organization that shares classified media from anonymous sources, the website launched in 2006 under the sunshine press organization. Originally the site was designed as a user-editable wiki, but has moved towards a more traditional publication model and no longer accepts either user comments or edits.  The organization is run by a global group of volunteers, who publish material that allege government, corporate, or individual misconduct. The primary interest of wikileaks is in exposing oppressive regimes in Asia, Africa, and the middle east, but also to assist the people globally who wish to reveal unethical behavior. This non profit organization is dependent of public donations receiving its main financing  through conventional bank transfers and online payment systems. I feel that wikileaks can be a good thing it creates an outlet for the people to express their concerns of unethical conduct without out the fear of being in the spotlight or receiving any kind of backlash thanks to the anonymity provided.