Information Technology (IT) People vs Computer Science (CS) People

Do you think  “Most CS people laugh at MIS/IT people,”??

in my point of view, i don't think all CS will do this kind of things. as people who have knowledge, they will understand very course have their strength when we compare to other course. the most important thing, CS people and IT people are related to each others. CS people are creating the programs, while IT people are using the programs. 

i can't deny that some of CS people are laughing at IT people. i think the reason is because CS is the mother of computing discipline, every career need their product like software engineering, information system and so on. likewise, some of people think IT is the cheaper course comparing to CS course, especially CS is the most popular course nowadays.

what is your opinion on “MIS/IT people make more money comparing to CS People and manage the CS folks.”

i think i agree with this statement, first, if we observe in any organization, most of any organization has IT Department, not CS Department. i think, most of organization need people IT because they need people to use the program, not to create the program for their company. likewise, IT people also are able to create the program, but is not much as CS people produce.

Additionally, nowadays, people use IT to do business whereby IT helps people to earn more money. IT people can help the company to increase the effectiveness to do the work and getting more money. Furthermore, many IT people have highest position in company such as CEO, manager etc. Therefore, they can manage the CS folks.

Computing Discipline

In computer discipline, there are five major careers that Information Technology (IT) or Computer Science People can choose. the careers are computer science, software engineering, information systems, cognitive science and computer engineering.Of course, each of them has different characteristics..

Let's understand the differences of each of them...

currently, the most popular major is computer science (CS) because it is the mother of computing discipline. almost of computing discipline is related to Computer Science, whereby they need to use what CS people produce. likewise, in CS, people not only understand the theory, but also create and design programmings that use mathematical concepts of computation and information. there are four areas that CS people should understand in their career which are designing and implementing software, devising new ways to use computers,  developing effective ways to solve computing problems, and planning and managing organizational technology infrastructure. 

moreover, software  engineering is focus on develop of software system that is used mathematical concept and computer science. the major activities of this discipline is process oriented activities such as requirements, design, quality assurance, process improvement and project management.

furthermore, Information System (IS) is concerned with the information that use by company, non profit organization and government or any organization by using computer system. Furthermore, it is consists of two types which are operation support system and management support system. the important thing is that IS can support management process in all levels. see in the picture below:

computer engineering is concerned about the design of digital hardware and software systems including communications systems, computers and devices that contain computers. computer engineering people will produce devices such as cell phones, digital audio players, digital video recorders, alarm systems, x-ray machines, and laser surgical tools all require integration of hardware and embedded software.

lastly, cognitive science  is the interdisciplinary scientific study of the mind and the process of it. it is also learnt about intelligence, embracing philosophy, psychology, artificial intelligence, neuroscience, linguistics, and anthropology.

Can i live without Internet???

As a student, beside laptop, I do believe that internet is very important for me. Internet is not only for study, but also to find information, news, and add knowledge. Furthermore, it is also important for communication, especially for those who study abroad. If they call their family by phone, it will be expensive because they have different nations as well as different type of phone’s card. While, communicate through internet is cheaper, faster and easier.

in my university, which is Albukhary International University (AiU), I think if there is not internet, the students might be in trouble. It is because they use social network as media to announce any information like Facebook. So, if we don’t open Facebook in one day, we might be missing some of information. Furthermore, the important thing is internet has important role for my study, because sometimes I can’t find the information that I want in books. So, I need to browse the information. 

Honestly, I can’t imagine myself without internet for a year. I think I will miss many things, because we can find much information through internet easily. Although we can information in books, I think is better through internet in terms of time. It is faster than any sources. However, we need to be careful when we do a research in order to get valid information.

I had experience live without internet for one week and a month. First of all, I felt OK, but after a few days I felt like I lose something. I can’t get in touch with my friends, because most of the time I communicate through internet with them.  So, internet is very important for me, I need it to communicate and also for my study.

                                                 

One Laptop Per One Child. do you agree with it??

Laptop or computer and internet have the important role in society nowadays; they can make money from it by build internet café. People use it not only for communicate, but also for play games online. 

What do you think the idea about one laptop per one child??

Well, i understand that by giving one laptop per one child is able to help them to get to know the technology. While on the other hand, I don't agree with this idea. First of all, I don’t think child really need it, because they might be don’t know how to use it. So, the laptop can broke easily. While, if they are able to use it, they might be use it to play games. Furthermore, it will be difficult for parents to buy one laptop per one child. If they have two children, it is possible OK for them. They can do effort to buy it. However, if they have many children, unfortunately their salary just enough to buy necessary things. I don’t think they can’t buy one laptop for one child. 

On the other hand, I agree if one house has one laptop, especially for those who have children in secondary school or university level. I am sure that laptop is very important and very useful for them in order to help them in their study. For instance, they need laptop to do their assignments and also to browse the information. 

I support Malaysian government to give one laptop per one house for children study in secondary school. Although, it is not for all Malaysian, I really agree with this idea. They just give to family, who has salary RM 3000 below. I think it’s fair enough, because people who have much salary, they are able to buy by themselves.

Does the technology affect your Life???

Does the technology give positive impact in society??
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As we can see nowadays, people are life more easily than before because of technology effect. It is something that is common and related in our life. Firstly, in terms of communication, although we are far from our family and friends, we can still get in touch with them easily and faster, because we are able to use technology as a tool for communication. For instance, we can SMS and call them whenever we want by using phone. Likewise, we are able to get in touch with them by using internet or social network such as Facebook, email, Skype, yahoo and many others. 

Technology has the important role in education as well. They need technology that can help the process of learning easier in order to add and share the knowledge. For example, in class, lecturers need computer, laptop, projector, printer, photocopy machine, internet and many others for education need. 

Furthermore, technology is really affected of business models, commerce and market structure.  Even though, people have long distance, they still can do a business in order to market, promote, sell, and buy their things. Nowadays, many people do business online, whereby they use of the technology such as laptop, internet, social network, and do transaction online. Based on my senior’s experience, she started her business through Facebook and phone. She just uploads the pictures that she wants to sell, put the price and customers choose what they prefer is. Then, she distributes the things through post, fax, etc. They also pay it online. So, distance should not be a problem to do a business today, although from different nations and places.

Likewise, workplace and labour market also get affected by the technology in terms of communication and how to do work. For instance, in my university that is Albukhary International University (AiU), staff and lecturers are most of the time using email to communicate with each other’s in order to share news, announcements and also teaching information.

Moreover, I have observed the effect of technology in my society where I live in. Actually, so many things are affected by it, because technology is developed day by day. For instance, almost every house has phone to communicate, might be in one house each family member has one phone, sometimes it can be more than that. I think, it will be difficult to find people who don’t have a phone. 

Likewise, PlayStation is a popular game that gives effect to adult and children as well. Children who are 5 years old also be able to play that game.

Information Technology History

Do you know the history of IT??
i would like to share some of information about it to all of you..

 

History of IT are consists of 4 ages which are Pre-mechanical, Mechanical, Electromechanical and Electronic (Butler. J.G.1987). 

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Pre-mechanical is from 3000 B.C to 1450 A.D. During this time, people used alphabets to communication that created by Phoenician and added vowels by The Greeks. They also communicated through speaking and picture drawings. They also had a writing system that is called “cuniform”. They were able to write in on scratch marks in wet clay, papyrus plant, barks, leather, etc. 

Furthermore, Chinese has developed how to create paper from rags in 100 A.D. Likewise; they had books and libraries as permanent storage devices whereby the Greeks bind the fold of sheet of papyrus into one. At that time, people also had the first numbering system that was introduced by Egyptian the numbers 1-9 vertical lines. Then, Hindus in India created nine-digit number system that we are using nowadays and in 875 A.D the concept of zero was developed. There was also the first calculator that is called the abacus.

Moreover, during the Mechanical age (1450 – 1840), Johann Gutenberg Invented the movable metal-type printing process in 1450 whereby it was the first information explosion. Then, in 1600, William Oughtred was invented the slide rule. The Pascaline was invented by Blaise Pascal in 1623. After that, Leibniz's Machine was invented one of the first mechanical computing machines in 1642. 

In addition, there was also The Electromechanical age (1840-1940). At that time, it was the beginning of telecommunication. People were invented voltaic battery, telegraph, Morse code, telephone and radio for communicate with each other’s. Furthermore, there was electromechanical computing that is called Herman Hollerith and IBM in 1880.

 

Lastly, the electronic age (1940 until present). In 1940s, people were known electronic vacuum tubes whereby it was first electronic computer.

Information Technology

Hi Blogger....
this is my first post regarding IT.... Are you Ready??
 

Information technology is something that is common in our life nowadays… IT is related to technologies whereby it is concerned about networking, computer, web design, internet, hardware, software and so on. 

According to Wikipedia, IT is the use of computers and telecommunications equipment to store, retrieve, transmit and manipulate data. Furthermore, as said by Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), IT is broadest sense encompasses all aspects of computing technology. 

It shows that what make IT difference with Computer Science whereby in computer science it is deepest sagacity to cover of computing technology aspects. In addition, IT people focus on satisfying human needs that arise from computing technology.

Do you care about IT?

Yeah, we should care about this.. here are the reasons..

IT is very important in our life because most of the time what we do it is related to technology. It is made our life easier and also efficient in terms of using of time. For example, hand phone, microwave, TV, and many others.

 Additionally,  we need to understand five categories of human mind, because it is related with IT how the computer process the data until wisdom.

 

According to Ackoff, Data is raw that doesn’t have meaning, but it can be exist in any form. Data is the process to create information which is used as input. Data can be in the form of numbers, characters, symbols, pictures and sounds. Data doesn't have meaningful so that people will not understand from that. 

Information is data that is organized and meaningful which is used to as output of the processing. Information becomes knowledge which has structure, growth and system. It is data that is meaningful and very useful.

Furthermore, knowledge is a determined process whereby it consists of appropriate the information. Next, understanding is about probabilistic process whereby people need to concern regarding cognitive and analytical. Lastly, wisdom is an extrapolative and non-probabilistic process.