Tuesday, April 28, 2009

This Week Terms And Definitions

Baud - the number of signal changes transmitted per second during data transmission by modem.

Baud rate - the speed at which a modem transmits data, or the number of "events" it can handle per second.

Encode - the conversion of data to a machine-readable form.

Emulation- to simulate otherwise incompatible software or hardware to make it compatible - running Microsoft Windows on a Macintosh computer, for example.

Human-computer interaction - a discipline concerned with the design, evaluation and implementation of interactive computing systems for human use and with the study of major phenomena surrounding them.

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