Information technology (IT), as defined by the Information Technology Association of America (ITAA), is "the study, design, development, implementation, support or management of computer-based information systems, particularly software applications and computer hardware." IT deals with the use of electronic computers and computer software to convert, store, protect, process, transmit, and securely retrieve information.
Today, the term information technology has ballooned to encompass many aspects of computing and technology, and the term has become very recognizable. The information technology umbrella can be quite large, covering many fields. IT professionals perform a variety of duties that range from installing applications to designing complex computer networks and information databases. A few of the duties that IT professionals perform may include data management, networking, engineering computer hardware, database and software design, as well as the management and administration of entire systems.
When computer and communications technologies are combined, the result is information technology, or "infotech". Information Technology (IT) is a general term that describes any technology that helps to produce, manipulate, store, communicate, and/or disseminate information. Presumably, when speaking of Information Technology (IT) as a whole, it is noted that the use of computers and information are associated.
Ago, like we know, people was hard to communicated when they located in two different places. Time comes time, they started to communicate by using strike a drum, fire and smoke. And then, they stopped to used fire and smoke and they used a small massage that can sent by pigeon. The newest was Semaphore. Then, a man named Alexander Graham Bell fely hard to communicate with the other people. Finally, he succeed to made an important thing in Information history, telephone. Nowadays, telephone is an important things for all people. And, some of them are using handphone. And we can used internet very useful and the other facility in computer now for information.
Not only telephone, we can get information and do communication from television. Television is found by Paul Nipkow in 1883. The development of television is so fast. If, ago, we only can enjoy the Black-White Television. But now, there is a colorful television. In fact, now television is already in wide screen.
Not only that, we can get many information from newspaper. In newspaper, we can improve our knowledge. But, reseacrher start to look for a faster communicator things that can we used in the future. The researcher said, that will looked like a micron speaker. The micron speaker will placed in our tooth (just one). If we want to call someone, just close the teeth tightly and said the name that you want to call. If the speaker broken, just pull out it with a toothpicks and eat it.
A computer is a machine that manipulates data according to a list of instructions.
The first devices that resemble modern computers date to the mid-20th century (1940–1945), although the computer concept and various machines similar to computers existed earlier. Early electronic computers were the size of a large room, consuming as much power as several hundred modern personal computers (PC). Modern computers are based on tiny integrated circuits and are millions to billions of times more capable while occupying a fraction of the space. Today, simple computers may be made small enough to fit into a wristwatch and be powered from a watch battery. Personal computers, in various forms, are icons of the Information Age and are what most people think of as "a computer"; however, the most common form of computer in use today is the embedded computer. Embedded computers are small, simple devices that are used to control other devices — for example; they may be found in machines ranging from fighter aircraft to industrial robots, digital cameras, and children's toys.
The ability to store and execute lists of instructions called programs makes computers extremely versatile and distinguishes them from calculators. The Church–Turing thesis is a mathematical statement of this versatility: any computer with a certain minimum capability is, in principle, capable of performing the same tasks that any other computer can perform. Therefore, computers with capability and complexity ranging from that of a personal digital assistant to a supercomputer are all able to perform the same computational tasks given enough time and storage capacity.
The Computer Generations :
- First Computer Generation
Example : Mark I, Mark II, Mark III, IBM 702, IBM 704, IBM 709, ENIAC, EDVAC, UNIVAC I, UNIVAC II, DATAMATIC 1000, CRC, NCR 102A, NCR 102D,BICMAC, and BIZMAC II.
- Second Computer Generation
Example : LARC, IBM 1401, UNIVAC III, UNIVAC SS80, UNIVAC SS90, UNIVAC 1107, BURROUGHS 200, IBM 7070, IBM 7080, IBM 1400, IBM 1600, NCR 300, HONEYWELL 400, HONEYWELL 800, CDC 1604, CDC 160A, GE 635, GE 645, and GE 200.
- Third Computer Generation
Example : UNIVAC 1109, UNIVAC 9000, BURROUGHS 5700, BURROUGHS 6700, GE 600, GE 600, GE 235, CDC 3000, CDC 6000, CDC 7000, PDP-8, and PDP-11.
- Fourth Computer Generation
Example : IBM 370, APPLE II, IBM PC/XT, IBM PC/AT, IBM PS/2, IBM PC/386, IBM PC 486, PENTIUM, PENTIUM II, PENTIUM III, PENTIUM IV, AMD k6, and ANTHLON.
- Fifth Computer Generation
This computer is in development. The component which use is VLSI (Very Large Scale Integration).
- Name : Ariani Widiastini
- Nickname : Ariani
- Birth : Denpasar, on August 11th 1995
- School : SMPN 1 DENPASAR
- Grade : 8 class C (8C)
- Absent : 15