CS105 Quiz #2 Topics

  1. Possibly a question on word processing
  2. Spreadsheets: when to use them, doing what-if analysis, difference between formulas and functions, relative and absolute references, ranges, what's wrong with sum(a1+a2)?
  3. A scanner outputs an image of a document, OCR
  4. How difficult is it to recognize handwriting, speach. How hard is speach understanding vs recognition, vs synthesis
  5. Quality or measure of a good speach recognition system (vocabulary, speaker independent, continuous)
  6. pixel, dot pitch, graphics card, printers
  7. USB 
  8. Memory hierarchy and quantities
  9. optical storage
  10. MPEG, MP-3
  11. What is tape good for?
  12. Video Card
  13. Networking and the last mile problem