Lecture 2:

Avoiding Health and Environment Problems

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Avoiding Health and Environment Problems

• Repetitive stress injury (RSI)

• Carpal tunnel syndrome (CTS)
• Ergonomics
• Maintain good posture and positioning.
• Don’t ignore pain or discomfort.
• Use stretching and strengthening exercises.
• Find a good physician who is familiar with RSI and how to treat
it.

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 Ethical Issues in Information Systems

• The AITP Code of Ethics

• Obligation to management
• Obligation to fellow AITP members
• Obligation to society

• The ACM Code of Professional Conduct

• Acquire and maintain professional competence

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Summary

• Computer waste - the inappropriate use of computer technology and resources

in both the public and private sectors

• Software and Internet piracy - represent the most common computer crime

• Ethics - determine generally accepted and discouraged activities within a

company

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ICT – To Black Box or Not?
• We can cannot cover everything in this one class (even semester!). . .

• . . .But the much of the technological issues are not that hard – despite some people
wanting to pretend they are.
• With a little effort, the important details can be extracted
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Requirements for Successful Service
Will it inter-operate? Can it be built?
Technology

Standards

Regulation Market

Will it sell?
Is it allowed?

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 Industry & Society: Penetration Rates

Years to reach 50M users:

Radio = 38
Users (Millions)
120 TV = 13
Cable = 10
90
Internet =5
60
Radio Cable Internet
30 TV

0
‘22 ‘30 ‘38 ‘46 ‘54 ‘62 ‘70 ‘78 ‘86 ‘94 ‘02
Source: Morgan Stanley

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 The Heart of the Matter: The Growth of Computers

1638400 Tera PC
819200
Doubling every 15 months
409600

204800
100G PC
10240
0
51200
M25600
I
P12800 10G PC Doubling every 2 years
S 6400
3200

1600
Giga PC
800
From: Raj
400
Reddy- The
200 Global Village
100

1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020

Year

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Storage Performance

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Optical Fiber: Promise & Performance
1,000Gb/s
1995
Projection

100 Gb/s
1987 Projection

1983 Projection
10 Gb/s

1980 Projection

1 Gb/s
1978 Projection

1980 1990 2000 Bell Labs

Gilder’s Law – Optical speeds doubling in ~ 9 months

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