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Information Technology with Physics: The way forward to Industrial Development By Franklyn Okogun (CTO IS Internet Solutions) Content Basic Definitions Information Technology Contributions of Physics to the
Information Technology with Physics:
The way forward to Industrial Development
By Franklyn Okogun (CTO IS Internet Solutions)
Content
› Basic Definitions › Information Technology › Contributions
Physics to the Information Age › Real Life Application › Discussion
Definitions
› Information technology (IT) is the application
computers and telecommunications equipment to store, retrieve, transmit and manipulate data,
in the context
a business
enterprise › According to the Information Technology Association
America, Information Technology is define in the business context as "the study, design, development, application, implementation, support
management
computer- based information systems"
IT Areas
Importance
› Business › Education › Finance › HealthCare › Security
Advantages and Disadvantages
Advantage
› Increased globalization › Cheaper, easier and faster communication(Skype, Social media) › More cost effective Businesses(Streamlining business) › Bring Business Nearer the people(e- commerce) › Creation
new jobs (Programmers/software developer, systems design/analyzers, hardware design, and web designers etc.)
Disadvantages
› Rise in unemployment
Contributions
Physics to the Information Age
Computers
The first electronic digital computer was built in the basement
the physics department at Iowa State University in 1939 by Professor John Atanasoff, who had a Ph.D. in theoretical physics from the University
Wisconsin, and his physics graduate student Clifford Berry. The second electronic digital computer, also proposed and designed by a physicist, was completed in
computer, called the ENIAC, was largely based
s pioneering work.
The Transistor: This was discovered in 1947 by young physicists (John Bardeen, Walter Brattain and William Shockle) at Bell Laboratories in New
gave birth to amplification using semiconductor And this garnered them the Nobel Prize in 1956 and
the way to the telecommunications revolution and the information age.
The World Wide Web: In the 1980s, the thousands
physicists at CERN Particle Physics Laboratory in Geneva needed a better way to exchange information with their colleagues working in different universities and institutes all
the world. To meet this need Tim Berners-Lee, a graduate from Oxford University with 1st class Honors in Physics, invented the World Wide Web at CERN in 1990. Along with creating the first web browser and web server, he developed the software conventions that are key to the Web's usefulness, with acronyms like URL (uniform resource locator) and HTTP (hypertext transfer protocol). Lasers: In 1954 the first microwave laser was built by physicist Charles
the first
laser was built in 1960 by physicist Theodore Maiman.
SATELLITE COMMUNICATION
MICROWAVE TRANSMISSION
OPTIC FIBRE
MEDICINE
DISCUSSION