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What is PageRank?
An ranking algorithm used by Google to display relevant webpages to a search query
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What is DDSS?
A system that takes a patient's symptoms as input and provides with a list of possible medical conditions as a diagnosis.
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What is The Arithmetic Logic Unit
It is the computer component that performs arithmetic and logic operations
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What is a sensor?
a device that detects and responds to some type of input from the physical environment.
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What is Extensible Markup Language(XML)?
A text based format that allows for the structuring of electronic documents and is not limited to a set of labels
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What is a transducer?
a device that converts variations in a physical quantity, such as pressure or brightness, into an electrical signal, or vice versa.
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What is MAR?
Stores the address of the next data to be executed
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What is an Actuator?
A component of a mchine that is responsible for moving or controlling a mechanism
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What is a Hub?
A website that has a lot of links pointing out to other websites.
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What is Telesurgery?
remote surgery, where the surgeon performs the surgery at a site away from the patient, through the use of a robotic system that the surgeon controls.
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What is control unit?
Part of CPU that executes instructions
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What is a Centrally Controlled system?
There is only one main source for the controls of the whole system
If this system fails, the whole thing stops working since the whole control is originated from that one source |
What is Web 2.0?
User to website model - users have the ability to submit information to a website, so the level of interaction is greater - however, there is not a full integration of user input onto the web, as the interaction is often done through a website. Examples include Facebook and Instagram, which allows users to communicate and share information through these websites.
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What is an Ultrasound?
The medical imaging procedure that uses transducers to create an image of the internals of the body.
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What is Operating System?
Responsible for memory management and resource allocation
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What is Triangulation?
A process by which the location of a radio transmitter can be determined by measuring either the radial distance, or the direction, of the received signal from two or three different points.
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What is an Ontology?
a standardized form of tagging - a group or organization agrees on the tags that are possible - this makes it easier to merge and process data, but is more difficult to achieve.
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What is Predictive diagnosis?
field of medicine that entails predicting the probability of disease and instituting preventive measures in order to either prevent the disease altogether or significantly decrease its impact upon the patient.
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What is Accumulator?
A register in the ALU that holds intermediate results
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What is an Autonomous Agent?
Senses what environment it is in and reacts accordingly
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