Information and Communication

Technologies (ICT)

The role of ICT in key sectors of the development

of society. Standards in the field of ICT

Anara Erlkanovna Karymsaova,

Candidate of Pedagogical Sciences
E-mail: hatae@mail.ru
 Course Overview

• The course provides an overview of the major

conceptual paradigms of Information and
Communication Technologies, from their theoretical
foundations to practical implementation
• Topics will include
 Architecture of Computer Systems
 Operating systems and software
 Network technologies and telecommunications
 ICTs in the professional field
 Perspective trends of ICTs
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 Lecture 1
• Overview of Today’s Lecture
• Definition of ICT. The subject of ICT and its objectives
• The role of ICT in key sectors of the development of
society
• Standards in the field of ICT
• The link (or bind) between ICT and the achievement of
sustainable development goals in the Millennium
Declaration
• Internet of the future. Content technologies and
information management
• Cybersecurity. Internet of Things

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What technologies?

•What do you understand by Information

and Communication Technologies?

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Defining ICTs
• Standard definitions:
• ICT (information and communications
technology - or technologies) is an umbrella
term that includes any communication device
or application,
• encompassing: radio, television, cellular phones,
computer and network hardware and software,
satellite systems and so on, as well as the various
services and applications associated with them, such
as videoconferencing and distance learning.
• ICTs are often spoken of in a particular context, such
as ICTs in education, health care, or libraries.
(techtarget.com)

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The technologies

ICT for Development: Range of Technologies and Users

Relevance
Definition: The term “Information and Communication
Technologies” (ICT) refers to technologies designed to
access, process and transmit information. ICT
encompass a full range of technologies – from
traditional, widely used devices such as radios,
telephones or TV, to more sophisticated tools like
computers or the Internet. The mix of technologies
used should be determined mainly by the specific local
context and demand. (Weigel and Waldburger, 2004,
p.19)

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The subject of ICT and its objectives
• The course provides an overview of the major
conceptual paradigms of Information and
Communication Technologies, from their theoretical
foundations to practical implementation.
• Topics will include the role of ICT in key sectors of
the development of society. Standards in the field
of ICT Systems, Operating systems and software,
Network technologies and telecommunications,
Information and communication technologies in the
professional field, and Perspective trends of
information and communication technologies

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The role of ICT in key sectors of the development
of society
• Telecommunications
• Telecommunication is the transmission of signs,
signals, messages, words, writings, images and
sounds or intelligence of any nature by wire, radio,
optical or other electromagneticsystems.
• Telecommunication occurs when the exchange
of information between communication participant
s includes the use of technology. It is transmitted
either electrically over physical media, such
as cables, or via electromagnetic radiation

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The role of ICT in key sectors of the development
of society
• ICT in Education
• ICT can improve the efficiency and quality of
education at all levels. Part of ICT's strategy to
support its education policy principles is promoting
"experimentation with, and dissemination of,
innovative strategies and technologies in
education." This involves developing appropriate e-
applications to help of learning and teaching

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The role of ICT in key sectors of the development
of society
• ICT in Public Sector Management
E-government is the use of ICT to promote more
efficient and cost-effective government, facilitate
more convenient government services, allow
greater public access to information, and make
government more transparent and accountable to
citizens.

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The role of ICT in key sectors of the development
of society
• ICT in Health
• ICT can be a powerful tool for improving health and
related services. ICTs projects are helping to
improve dissemination of public health information,
bridge the gap in consultation, diagnosis, and
treatment between resource-rich and resource-
poor hospitals, facilitate learning, enhance the
ability to monitor diseases and other health issues,
and make health administration more efficient

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The role of ICT in key sectors of the development
of society
• ICT in Agriculture and Food Security
• ICT efforts are raising agricultural productivity and
the quality of life of farmers and the rural poor by
improving information flows, communication, and
access to reliable, up-to-date information. This
enables strategic decision-making by farmers and
prevents or mitigates losses caused by natural
disasters

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 Standards in the ICT field
• Application and administration
• Scoping requirements
• Functional Performance Criteria
• Hardware
• Platforms and Applications
• Documentation and Support Services

You can find full information about standards ICT in here:

Information and Communication Technology (ICT) Standards and Guidelines (US)
https://www.access-board.gov/attachments/article/490/draft-rule.pdf
Development of ten standards for ICT field (Qazaqstan)
https://zerde.gov.kz/en/press/news/Development-of-ten-standards-for-ICT-
field/#hcq=EQgCxvq
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 A new generation of components and systems
Новое поколение компонентов и систем

• ICT1 – 2016: Smart Cyber-Physical Systems

• ICT2 – 2016: Thin, Organic and Large Area
Electronics
• ICT3 – 2016: SSI – Smart System Integration
• ICT4 – 2017: Smart Anything Everywhere Initiative
• ICT5 – 2017: Customized and low energy computing
• ICT6 – 2016: Cloud Computing

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 Smart Cyber-Physical Systems

• The challenge is to design, programme and

implement highly distributed and connected digital
technologies that are embedded in a multitude of
increasingly autonomous physical systems with
various dynamics and satisfying multiple critical
constraints including safety, security, power
efficiency, high performance, size and cost.

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 Overview
• What are Cyber-Physical Systems?
• Scientific challenges
• Composition and compositionality
• How to build, compose networked CPS at all scales?
• How to achieve compositionality in high-confidence, dynamically-
configured systems?
• Design and design automation
• What is the meaning and cost of heterogeneity?
• How to accommodate changes in products, design process and
design culture
• Interaction-based computing
• What are the new computing paradigms?
• How to model interactions

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 CPS: Computing Perspective
• Two types of computing systems •
• The next frontier
– Mainframe computing (60’s-70’s)
• Large computers to execute big
data processing applications
– Desktop computing & Internet (80’s-
90’s)
• One computer at every desk to do
business/personal activities
– Embedded computing (21st
Century)
• “Invisible” part of the
environment
• Transformation of industry
Cyber-Physical Systems
Number of microprocessor
units per year
– Millions in desktops
– Billions in embedded processors
• Applications:
– Automotive Systems
• Light and heavy automobiles,
trucks, buses
– Aerospace Systems
• Airplanes, space systems
– Consumer electronics
• Mobile phones, office electronics,
digital appliances
– Health/Medical Equipment
• Patient monitoring, MRI, infusion
pumps, artificial organs
– Industrial Automation
• Supervisory Control and Data
Acquisition (SCADA) systems for
chemical and power plants
• Manufacturing systems
– Defense
• Source of superiority in all weapon
systems
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CPS: Systems Perspective

Cyber-Physical Systems 17
 CPS Definition

A CPS is a system in which:

information processing and physical processes are so
tightly integrated that it is not possible to identify
whether behaviors are the result of computations,
physical laws, or both working together
where functionality and salient system characteristics
are emerging through the interaction of physical and
computational objects

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 Transformation of Industries:
Health Care and Medicine
• National Health Information Network, Electronic
Patient Record initiative
• Medical records at any point of service
• Hospital, OR, ICU, …, EMT?
• Home care: monitoring and control
• Pulse oximeters (oxygen saturation), blood glucose
monitors, infusion pumps (insulin), accelerometers (falling,
immobility), wearable networks (gait analysis), …
• Operating Room of the Future (Goldman)
• Closed loop monitoring and control; multiple treatment
stations, plug and play devices; robotic microsurgery
(remotely guided?)
• System coordination challenge
• Progress in bioinformatics: gene, protein expression;
systems biology; disease dynamics, control
mechanisms

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 Transformation of Industries:
Electric Power Grid
• Current picture:
• Equipment protection devices trip locally,
reactively
• Cascading failure: August (US/Canada) and
October (Europe), 2003
• Better future?
• Real-time cooperative control of protection
devices
• Or -- self-healing -- (re-)aggregate islands of
stable bulk power (protection, market
motives)
• Ubiquitous green technologies
• Issue: standard operational control concerns
exhibit wide-area characteristics (bulk power IT Layer
stability and quality, flow control, fault
isolation)
• Context: market (timing?) behavior, power
routing transactions, regulation

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 SSI – Smart System Integration

• The challenge is to be able to develop and

manufacture smart objects and systems that closely
integrate sensors, actuators, innovative MEMS,
processing power, embedded memory and
communication capabilities, all optimizing the use
of supply power. This will require technology
breakthroughs notably in integration,
miniaturization with additional functionalities and
mastering complexity.
Microelectromechanical systems

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 Customized and low energy computing
• Information and Communication Technologies are
becoming a core component of products in all
market sectors.
• The trend towards “Smart Anything Everywhere”
must be supported by innovations allowing a very
significant reduction of the cost and complexity of
software development for modern architectures,
and of the energy footprint of computation and
communication.
• Software development is the key challenge, because
current programming tools do not fully support
emerging system architectures.
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What is Cloud Computing?
• Cloud Computing is a general term used to describe a new
class of network based computing that takes place over the
Internet,
• basically a step on from Utility Computing
• a collection/group of integrated and networked hardware,
software and Internet infrastructure (called a platform).
• Using the Internet for communication and transport
provides hardware, software and networking services to
clients
• These platforms hide the complexity and details of the
underlying infrastructure from users and applications by
providing very simple graphical interface or API (Applications
Programming Interface).

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What is Cloud Computing?
• In addition, the platform provides on demand
services, that are always on, anywhere, anytime and
any place.
• Pay for use and as needed, elastic
• scale up and down in capacity and functionalities
• The hardware and software services are available to
• general public, enterprises, corporations and businesses
markets.

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Do you Use the Cloud?

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type of service

Software as a Service (SaaS) is a software

distribution model in which applications are
hosted by a vendor or service provider and
made available to customers over a network,
typically the Internet.

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The Cloud Requires
An Internet connection
An account - Created with a user name and a
password
Agree to Terms

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So what is the cloud?

Computing and software resources that are delivered on demand, as service.

(2013, January) A Walk in the Clouds. Cloud Computing, CDW-G Reference Guide., 3-5.

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 From ground to
cloud

The Back Story

 Computer Storage

Computers have internal or hard drive storage(C: Drive)

CPU has a drive for storing programs, documents,
pictures, videos, presentations, etc…

Inside the Computer

Standard Computer Tower
or Central Processing Unit
(CPU)
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Internal Storage
Content is stored on THAT computer
To use content must return to THAT computer
Cannot access this content from another device or
computer

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Programs
Purchase programs
Load to the computer
Each computer would need the program loaded
and stored on the internal drive

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 External Storage

 Allows your content to become mobile

 Save to the storage device
 Take device to any compatible computer
 Open and use content

CD/DVD Thumb Drive External Hard Drive

SD Card Micro SD Card

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Networked Storage
Multiple work stations talk to one unit that stores
information and data.
Data is not saved to the C: drive, but to a network
drive
Can retrieve the data stored to the network from
any of the connected workstations.

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Saving documents
When you do a “save as” on your computer, you
choose where to save the material.

Internal Storage
External Storage

Network

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Cloud Storage

Create an Account – User

name and password
Content lives with the
account in the cloud
Log onto any computer with
Wi-Fi to find your content

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Downloads for storage
Download a cloud based app to a computer you
own
The app lives on your Computer
Save files to the app
When connected to the Internet it will sync with
the cloud
The Cloud can be accessed from any Internet
connection

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Save file as
Do “save as” to save a file to your computer and the
cloud
The syncing folders makes data retrieval easier
Box and DropBox require this download to work

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Upload Documents
Log-in to the online storage account
Click upload a file
Find the file on hard drive, network, or external
storage
Upload to cloud storage 2 GB

5 GB

5 GB
7 GB

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 Software and
applications

More than Storage

Document Creation
Google Docs
SkyDrive
Box

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Download required?

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Internet is required
Creation is happening in the cloud
Saving is going to the cloud
To retrieve files, must return to the cloud

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Implications последствия

What are we comfortable with patrons using?

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Internet capable Devices

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Benefits
Saving Large Files
Multiple file types – Photos, videos, presentations,
docs
Back-up of stored files
File Sharing
Access from devices
Nothing to forget (thumb drive, cd)
Project collaboration

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File Sharing

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Other Software services
Photo editing software
Online banking apps
Social media apps
Communication

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Programming
 Group of instructions that directs a computer is
called an program
No computer can do anything without a program
or Computer cannot do anything without a
program
A programming language is a formal computer
language designed to communicate instructions to
a machine, particularly a computer. Programming
languages can be used to create programs to
control the behavior of a machine or to
express algorithms.
The person contributing the idea of the stored
program was John von Neumann
The language that the computer can understand
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Programming
 Programs designed to perform specific tasks is
called known as Application software
Multiprogramming system execute more jobs in
the same time period
Device driver type of program allows
communication between a peripheral device, such
as a mouse or printer, and the rest of the computer
system
PASCAL is the computer program language which is
widely used in computer science and engineering
and also in business

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Programming
 The process of writing computer instructions in a
programming language is known as Coding
A computer program consists of Algorithms written
in computer's language
A computer program that converts an entire
program into machine language at one time is
called a compiler
The purpose of an application program is to meet
specific user needs
Programmed instructions to the computer is known
as code

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 Future Internet

• Internet of Things (IoT)

• Internet of People (IoP)
• Internet of Energy (IoE)
• Internet of Media (IoM)
• Internet of Services (IoS)

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 Internet of Things (IoT)

• a dynamic global network infrastructure where physical and

virtual “things” have
• identities,
• physical attributes,
• virtual personalities,
• use intelligent interfaces, and are seamlessly integrated into
the information network

• smart things/objects are expected to become active

participants in business

• machine-to-machine communication

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IoT

• Connecting
• Anything • Example of communication
• Anyone between objects:
• My fridge knows that the bottle of
• Anytime milk is almost empty and it orders
another bottle from the
supermarket
• Using
• Any network
• Any service

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 Internet of Things (IoT)
• a dynamic global network infrastructure of physical and virtual
“things”
• smart things/objects
• machine-to-machine communication

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 ICT in Industrial Leadership

1. Components and systems

• Smart embedded components and systems, micro-nano-
bio systems, organic electronics, large area integration,
technologies for IoT, systems of systems and complex
system engineering
2. Next generation computing
• Processor and system architecture, interconnect and data
localisation technologies, cloud computing, parallel
computing and simulation software
3. Future Internet
• Networks, software and services, cyber security, privacy
and trust, wireless communication and all optical
networks, immersive interactive multimedia and
connected enterprise

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 ICT in Leadership
4. Content technologies and information management
• Technologies for language, learning, interaction, digital
preservation, content access and analytics; advanced
data mining, machine learning, statistical analysis and
visual computing
5. Advanced interfaces and robots
• Service robotics, cognitive systems, advanced interfaces,
smart spaces and sentient machines
6. Key Enabling Technologies: Micro- nano-electronics and
photonics
• Design, advanced processes, pilot lines for fabrication,
related production technologies and demonstration
actions to validate technology developments and
innovative business models

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 Motivation
• Intelligent Environments are aimed at improving the
inhabitants’ experience and task performance
• Automate functions in the home
• Provide services to the inhabitants
• Decisions coming from the decision maker(s) in the
environment have to be executed.
• Decisions require actions to be performed on devices
• Decisions are frequently not elementary device interactions
but rather relatively complex commands
• Decisions define set points or results that have to be achieved
• Decisions can require entire tasks to be performed

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Automation and Robotics in Intelligent
Environments

Control of the physical environment

 Automated blinds
 Thermostats and heating ducts
 Automatic doors
 Automatic room partitioning
Personal service robots
 House cleaning
 Lawn mowing
 Assistance to the elderly and handicapped
 Office assistants
 Security services

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Robots

• Robota (Czech) = A worker of forced labor

From Czech playwright Karel Capek's 1921 play “R.U.R”
(“Rossum's Universal Robots”)
• Japanese Industrial Robot Association (JIRA) :
“A device with degrees of freedom that can be controlled.”
• Class 1 : Manual handling device
• Class 2 : Fixed sequence robot
• Class 3 : Variable sequence robot
• Class 4 : Playback robot
• Class 5 : Numerical control robot
• Class 6 : Intelligent robot

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A Brief History of Robotics
• Mechanical Automata
• Ancient Greece & Egypt
• Water powered for ceremonies
• 14th – 19th century Europe
• Clockwork driven for entertainment
• Motor driven Robots
• 1928: First motor driven automata
• 1961: Unimate
• First industrial robot
Maillardet’s Automaton
• 1967: Shakey
• Autonomous mobile research robot
• 1969: Stanford Arm
• Dextrous, electric motor driven robot arm

Unimate
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Robots
 Robot Manipulators

 Mobile Robots

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Robots
 Walking Robots

 Humanoid Robots

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Autonomous Robots

• The control of autonomous robots involves a number

of subtasks
• Understanding and modeling of the mechanism
• Kinematics, Dynamics, and Odometry
• Reliable control of the actuators
• Closed-loop control
• Generation of task-specific motions
• Path planning
• Integration of sensors
• Selection and interfacing of various types of sensors
• Coping with noise and uncertainty
• Filtering of sensor noise and actuator uncertainty
• Creation of flexible control policies
• Control has to deal with new situations

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 Traditional Industrial Robots
• Traditional industrial robot control uses robot arms
and largely pre-computed motions
 Programming using “teach box”
 Repetitive tasks
 High speed
 Few sensing operations
 High precision movements
 Pre-planned trajectories and
task policies
 No interaction with humans

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 Problems

• Traditional programming techniques for industrial

robots lack key capabilities necessary in intelligent
environments
 Only limited on-line sensing
 No incorporation of uncertainty
 No interaction with humans
 Reliance on perfect task information
 Complete re-programming for new tasks

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Requirements for Robots in Intelligent
Environments
• Autonomy
• Robots have to be capable of achieving task objectives
without human input
• Robots have to be able to make and execute their own
decisions based on sensor information
• Intuitive Human-Robot Interfaces
• Use of robots in smart homes can not require extensive user
training
• Commands to robots should be natural for inhabitants
• Adaptation
• Robots have to be able to adjust to changes in the
environment

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Robots for Intelligent Environments

• Service Robots
• Security guard
• Delivery
• Cleaning
• Mowing
• Assistance Robots
• Mobility
• Services for elderly and
People with disabilities

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OPTOELECTRONICS application

Displays.
Display:
alarm clock, TV and video recorder,
microwave cooker and some ovens.

Liquid crystal displays

watches, calculators, telephones,
portable radios, tape and CD players
office machines such as faxes and copiers.

Most laptop computers & Large flat screen TVs have liquid
crystal displays.

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Communications.
A phone call outside local area
To link computers, outside broadcast TV cameras,
Banks, Stock Exchange dealing rooms, etc.

Cameras.
Camcorders and Digital still cameras
depend on a high quality multi- component optical lens.

Entertainment.
TV remote controller
sends a coded infra-red beam to the set. CD player
uses a laser diode

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Manufacturing.

Lasers are being used for cutting and welding .

Clothes made in large quantity are cut to shape using a laser.

The gears in car have probably been welded to the shaft

using a laser.

The symbols all over the dashboard have been produced

using a different type of laser to remove the black overcoat
from a colored.

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Network Example
Micro-Manufacturing Examples

This two-millimeter-tall camel was made of gold foil.

Posed here passing through the eye of a needle 300 microns wide.

[Source: Micreon GmbH ]

Cybersecurity
• Computer security, also known
as cybersecurity or IT security, is the protection
of computer systems from the theft or damage to
the hardware, software or the information on them,
as well as from disruption ( failure)
or misdirection of the services they provide.

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 Cyber Security Objectives

INTEGRITY AVAILABILITY
authenticity access

CONFIDENTIALITY
disclosure

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 Cyber Security Objectives
USAGE
purpose

INTEGRITY AVAILABILITY
authenticity access

CONFIDENTIALITY
disclosure

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 Cyber Security Objectives
USAGE
purpose

INTEGRITY USAGE AVAILABILITY

authenticity access

CONFIDENTIALITY
disclosure

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References
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
• Ideas/Slides from Janos Sztipanovits “CYBER PHYSICAL
SYSTEMS (CPS)”

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List of required textbooks and additional resources
Required Textbook:
• Brown G., Sargent B., and Watson D. Cambridge IGCSE ICT. - London:
Hodder Education Group, 2015. -439 p. [BW]
• Williams, B. K. and Sawyer, S. Using information technology: A practical
introduction to computers & communications.- New York: McGraw-
Hil., - 8th ed. 2010. -563 p. [WS]

Alternative Textbook:
• Watson, D. and Williams, H. – Cambridge IGCSE Computer Science:
Hodder Edu.; 3 ed. 2015.-278 p. [W]

Additional resources:
• Evans, V. Information technology. Books 1-3: English for specific
purposes .- 5th impr.- Newbury: Express Publishing, 2014.- 40 p. [E]

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