Introduction to IT

Presented by:Ishan AgarwalABV-IIITM, Gwalior

e-commerce

• Electronic commerce, commonly known as e-commerce, consists of the buying and selling of products or services over electronic systems such as the Internet and other computer networks.

e-commerce cont.

Some common applications related to electronic commerce are the following:

• Content Management Systems• Accounting and finance systems• Orders and shipment information• Enterprise and client information reporting• Domestic and international payment systems• On-line Shopping• email and messaging

Multimedia

• Multimedia represents the convergence of text, pictures, video and sound into a single form.

• A site with a specific purpose can use Multimedia to make it more attractive to user.

Multimedia Cont.

• Multimedia Applications

• Distance and interactive training

• CAD/CAM

• Air traffic control

• Public Digital libraries

• business/Office Executive information systems

• Remote consulting systems

• Video conferencing

• Multimedia documents

• Advertising

• Electronic publishing

e-governance

• Electronic Governance is the application of Information Technology to bring SMART governance.

• The Indian government is using IT to facilitate governance. The IT industry is doing its bit to help as public-private partnerships become the order of the day.

e-governance• IT enables the delivery of government services as it

caters to a large base of people across different segments and geographical locations.

• The effective use of IT services in government administration can greatly enhance existing efficiencies, drive down communication costs, and increase transparency in the functioning of various departments.

• It provides citizens easy access to tangible benefits, be it through simple applications such as online form filling, bill sourcing and payments, or complex applications like distance education and tele-medicine.

Robotics

• Robotics requires a working knowledge of electronics, mechanics and software.

• The commonly used programming language for robots is labview.

• All robotic applications need parallelism and event-based programming.

Robotics Cont.

• Robots are used in welding as arc welding and plasma cutting.

• In material handling like loading and unloading of heavy machines and goods.

• Except this they are also used in Robotic Assembling, Drilling etc.

Artificial Intelligence

• Artificial intelligence, by claiming to be able to recreate the capabilities of the human mind, is a both challenge and an inspiration for IT industry.

Artificial Intelligence Cont.

• game playing• speech recognition• computer vision• expert systems• heuristic classification

Wireless Networking

• Wireless telecommunications networks are generally implemented with some type of remote information transmission system that uses electromagnetic waves.

• Cellular phones are part of huge wireless network systems.

• Also in battle field this technology is used for communication. walkie-talkie is an example of this type of communication.

Speech Processing

• Speech processing refers to the acquisition, manipulation, storage, transfer and output of human utterances by a computer. The main goals are the recognition, synthesis and compression of human speech.

• Voice security systems are example of this technology.

Web 2.0

• Web 2.0 is a term describing changing trends in the use of World Wide Web technology and web design that aim to enhance creativity, information sharing, and collaboration among users.

• Rich-Internet application techniques such as AJAX, Adobe Flash, Flex, Java, Silverlight and Curl have evolved that have the potential to improve the user-experience in browser-based applications.

Dot Net

• The Microsoft .NET Framework is a software technology that is available with several Microsoft Windows operating systems. It includes a large library of pre-coded solutions to common programming problems.

• Languages that are supported by this platform to develop software are C#, J#, Visual C++, VB.Net, ASP.Net.

Linux

• The name "Linux" comes from the Linux kernel, originally written in 1991 by Linus Torvalds.

• It is a free open source software.• The system's utilities and libraries usually

come from the GNU operating system, this contribution is the basis for the alternative name GNU/Linux.

XML

• XML stands for Extensible Markup Language.• It is classified as an extensible language

because it allows its users to define their own elements.