Chapter One Terms To Know

As you read Chapter One of the O'Brien text, here is a list of terms to focus upon:
Adaptive
Batch Processing
Control
Cybernetic
Data
End User
Enterprise Collaboration
Extranets
Feedback
Information system
Input
Knowledge Management System (KMS)
Procedures
Programs
Real-time
Softwre
Storage
Value-added

Schedule of Discussion

The schedule of chapters and disussion leaders for the Business @ The Speed of Thought book by Bill Gates is posted at http://facultyweb.anderson.edu/~eadulaney/business.htm. There are currently three open chapters and those remain for the three students who were absent this morning. Next Thursday, we will cover Chapter 1 (Emmett Dulaney), Chapter 2 (Seth Beard), and Chapter 3 (Esther Speigner).

Ten Current Topics

The ten current topics/issues discussed in class today:
1. Cloning, and the ethics thereof
2. Security and all its variants
3. Resource allocation
4. The upcoming Windows Vista
5. A move to web-based applications
6. Payment based on registration/purchase versus payment based on advertising
7. Ad revenue possibilities in electronic media
8. Video, video, video
9. Censorship
10. Wireless everything (including RFID)

For Thursday, read the intro and Chapter 1 of the Gates book. Be ready to pick a chapter that you will present.