I, Robot

I, Robot is a science-fiction mix of action film. The story takes place in 2035 Chicago, in a world where robot usage is commonplace. Robots are used as servants and for various public services. Everyone in futuristic society believes robots must follow the three rules talks about robot may not injure a human being, obey orders and protect its own existence. Detective Spooner's (Will Smith) mission is to confirm his prejudice rather than investigate a crime. The suspicious and overly emotional Detective Spooner's desire to prove that robots are a problem is shaped by an experience in his past. Detective Spooner rebuffs robots because of their lack of emotional capacity. Nearly one hundred years of popular depictions of robots generally characterise them as logical and compelled to act on the basis of probability and without regard for human emotion. What differences between humans and machines is that the key themes in science fiction. A central feature of the discourse of human and machine difference is characterised as the emotional element. The point is that the emotional element, particularly in humans, is not so significantly subordinated to other elements of human cognition, such as reason.

Indeed the movie I, ROBOT reflects contemporary scientific developments. The publicity asks us to, Imagine a world where motorcycles drive themselves, robots conduct symphony orchestras and an animal's thought patterns can move a robot. It conveys that in the near future robots will be a trusted part of our everyday life. Every family will have one or more to do the task. They will clean our homes, deliver our packages, and walk our pets - even care for our children. All throughout wrapped in a detective plot full of fast- die-hard action features an unexpected yet logical flaw in an apparently perfect system that speculates about the future.

Wall E

WALL-E (Waste Allocator Load Lifter - Earth Class) is a computer-animated tale about a wide-eyed robot who is programmed to collect, compact and pile trash so that it's out of the way to clean up a waste-covered Earth. The story set in the year is 2700 where planet Earth has long been uninhabitable. A spaceship lands and drops off a white, pod-like robot named EVE who shoots at everything she sees and searches around in vain for some mysterious object. WALL-E follows her aboard the ship. Wall E found out that the human consumers who have escaped Earth have residents of the starships have grown bloated beyond recognition on a lifestyle of all-you-can-eat fast food and hover-capable chairs that leave movement utterly. Humans have fled in luxurious spaceships where their every whim is satisfied by robots. The Captain of the ship sheds his passive life and takes an active role, eventually tangling with the autopilot and flipping the switch to manual and EVE places the plant in the holo-detector, releasing WALL-E and sending the ship back to Earth.EVE brings WALL-E's body back to his home where she successfully repairs and reactivates him but WALL-E's memory is erased. So EVA so give WALL E a farewell "kiss" which causes an electric spark and restores his memory to what it is. WALL-E and EVE happily reunite and they join together to restore the Earth’s Environment.

This film is the logical conclusion of trying to meet our every need such that we are no longer required to do anything that makes us fat and lazy. The garbage we generate and don't recycle has to go somewhere that cause our environment polluted. And in the end, the realization that there is an unmet need that a desolate world needs to be rebuilt and kept safe that gives these people a brand new perspective on life.

Comparison

The two movies I chose are both show what will earth in the future. I, Robot take place in the year 2035 while Wall E takes place in the year 2700. The two movies portray different category, I, Robot portray real people and Wall E portrays through an animation but both of them illustrate how the robotics features will aid our everyday cost of living. These two movies remind us where the boundaries are.

Information technology (IT) has made a great advance with popularizing internet access and its use by people throughout the world. The value of information itself has been enhanced in business scenes as well as in daily lives. Thus, as a future IT professional someday my contribution for the development of technology based on what I learned from college are:

Adapt to Change- Adapting to change help us to discover and explore the modern world of technology. As IT people, we should engage with this to know the latest technologies and it will also help us to create and develop better technologies in the future to satisfy what the needs of the people. But sometimes people resist to change because of the feeling of discomfort with the nature of change itself, which may violate their moral belief systems. In this manner, implementing theories would help the user by proving a step by step manual and easy to understand instruction will ease there discomfort in the system.

Implementing ISP- As an IT student I would encourage companies to implement IPS to priorities the needs of the company. The information systems plan project determines the sequence for implementing specific information systems. The goal of the strategy is to deliver the most valuable business information at the earliest time possible in the most cost-effective manner. It must be also use timely, useable, maintainable, able to be iterated into a quality product, and reproducible. It will also help developers to develop technologies that would fit the needs of the company.

Setting Standard- It is important when developing a system the programmers should set a standard to improve the quality of the system and to satisfy what the consumer want.

Technology changed the humanity for the better to improve the standards of living in ways that we couldn't even believe were possible to happen.

Technology Today

People nowadays are into modernization. Everything from phones to lectures to mails and so on and so forth; people seem to find new ways to make life easier. The uses of technology are as follows:

To communicate

We all know that communication is very important in the part of human lives because it convey meaning in an attempt to create shared understanding between your love ones. There are so many ways of communicating today that there really is no reason why we shouldn't be keeping in touch with the important people in your life. The internet has exploded since its introduction into the public. Through the internet, you can send messages, photos, documents, and other important files through email.

To educate

Using technology involves the student in the learning process. Students using technology become active participants in the learning process instead of passive listeners. It use as part of the normal learning process for students; it is in their comfort zone and teachers often learn new technology programs along with students.

Managing a Business

Technology gives owner/operators ample opportunity at their convenience to investigate the competition and ensure that they possess the products consumers' desire. It also increased productivity and quickly relay the information of the company.

Save effort and time

Using technology to shortcut the little things helps you become more agile and quick to respond on the things you want to do.

What Influence Us?

People nowadays get influenced on modern technology because of the features and functionalities that makes our life more convenient and safes a great deal of our time. Through the use of media used to store and deliver information or data in advertising, broadcasting, news and social, people are getting interested to use that technology. It has given us so many items of luxury and enjoyment. It has also helped to improve our health and lengthen our life span. One example of this the invention of cell phone made people communicates more easily with people at big distances, even across the ocean. The information was quicker received and so, communication improved. But, through the years reliance upon these services has increased and the self-sufficiency of humans has fallen into a pit. In the present day many people rely on e-mail and instant messaging to communicate instead of using letters or in-person meetings; this also includes using the internet instead of the library for reports. This has caused the devolution of the human race to on a machine. Therefore, we should not always rely on the things around us to make our quality of living balance.

Factors involved in technology change?

The factor involved why technology change is that it requires greater demands on the society. People want everything to be modernized. Satisfaction is also the reason why technology changes. Developers improve the functionality of the product to satisfy the needs of the user. Technology will flows and goes by the need of the people.



Contrast and discuss the enrollment input form (PRF) with the enrollment university interface.


The image above is the Student Records Information Systems (SRIS) screenshot of the university from Joan Dandoy's post.

Looking the fields for PRF form and SRIS form they differ in content of data. This data Civil Status, Birthdate, Desired Career, Parents, Email and Contact Numbers can only be seen in SRIS form but not in PRF form. By these SRIS and PRF form must be consist. The reliability or uniformity of successive results of SRIS and PRF form should be consistent.A consistent approach to layout of the enrollment system allows the user can quickly understand and confidently predict the location of information controls across the enrollment system.

Also data should be Specific. To be specific means to use facts and details to make sure you are communicating clearly. First question, where part of the design cause the delay of the student, then on that part we may improved well or be specific so that the user can easily get it.


Interview your university network specialist. Ask how various parts of the system communicates with each other throughout the university. (Q) Given the chance to redesign the existing setup, enumerate and discuss your keypoints for an effective and efficient network environment ideal for the university.

In this assignment we are task to interview a network specialist in our university. By the way a network specialist is someone who deals with computer networks professionally.

Engr. Ariel Roy Reyes is the currently network specialist in the university. We prepare list of question to be answer by Sir Reyes. Supposed to be the interview where conducted last week but due to the some important matter it was postponed. So, we decided to pass it via email. Good to know Sir Reyes response and answer the question given to him.

First question was to explain what are the components involved in the system(s) in the university in hardware, software, technology, etc. According to Sir Reyes, I am not in the right position to discuss the details of the software components used as there are other assigned personnel for such job. However, talking about hardware component and technology used, basically I, assigned as the network administrator, is entrusted to maintain our different servers to run 24/7. Currently, we have our Web Server hosted here in our University in our HP ProLiant ML350 Server. Its an old but stable server set-up here in our Networks Office and has been active since Engr. Val A. Quimno , not yet a dean, was appointed as the Network Administrator. The said server has the following specification:

• Intel Xeon 3.0 GHz, 3.2 GHz, or 3.4 GHz processors (dual processor capability) with 1MB level 2 cache standard. Processors include support for Hyper-Threading and Extended Memory 64 Technology (EM64T)
• Intel® E7520 chipset
• 800-MHz Front Side Bus
• Integrated Dual Channel Ultra320 SCSI Adapter
• Smart Array 641 Controller (standard in Array Models only)
• NC7761 PCI Gigabit NIC (embedded)
• Up to 1 GB of PC2700 DDR SDRAM with Advanced ECC capabilities (Expandable to 8 GB)
• Six expansion slots: one 64-bit/133-MHz PCI-X, two 64-bit/100-MHz PCI-X, one 64-bit/66-MHz PCI-X, one x4 PCI-Express, and one x8 PCI-Express
• New HP Power Regulator for ProLiant delivering server level, policy based power management with industry leading energy efficiency and savings on system power and cooling costs
• Three USB ports: 1 front, 1 internal, 1 rear
• Support for Ultra320 SCSI hard drives (six hot plug or four non-hot plug drives supported standard, model dependent)
• Internalstorage capacity of up to 1.8TB; 2.4TB with optional 2-bay hot plug SCSI drive
• 725W Hot-Plug Power Supply (standard, most models); optional 725W Hot-Pluggable Redundant Power Supply (1+1) available. Non hot plug SCSI models include a 460W non-hot plug power supply.
• Tool-free chassis entry and component access
• Support for ROM based setup utility (RBSU) and redundant ROM
• Systems Insight Manager, SmartStart, and Automatic Server Recovery 2 (ASR-2) included
• Protected by HP Services and a worldwide network of resellers and service providers. Three-year Next Business Day, on-site limited global warranty. Certain restrictions and exclusions apply. Pre-Failure Notification on processors, memory, and SCSI hard drives.

Aside from it, our mail server running under Compaq Proliant ML330 Server, our oldest server, is also hosted here in our Networks Office. Together with other Servers, such as Proxy and Enrollment Servers, both proxy and our enrollment servers are running in a microcomputer/personal computers but with higher specifications to act as servers.

Second question was to explain how do these communicate with one another (topology, network connectivity, protocols, etc.) – may include data flow/ UML diagrams to better explain. According to Sir Reyes, “All Servers are connected in a shared medium grouped as one subnetwork. In general, our network follows the extended star topology which is connected to a DUAL WAN Router that serves as the load balancer between our two Internet Service Providers. All other workstations are grouped into different subnetworks as in star topology branching out from our servers subnetwork as in extended star topology. At present, we are making use of class C IP Address for private IP address assignments. Other workstations IP assignments are configured statically (example: laboratories) while others are Dynamic (example: offices). All workstations are connected via our proxy servers that do some basic filtering/firewall to control users access to the internet aside from router filtering/firewall management. So, whenever any workstation has to connect to the internet, it has to pass through software and hardware based firewall.”

Third question was to explain what are the processes involved in the communication with each system to other systems. According to Sir Reyes,”As mentioned above, in item 3, all workstations are connected via a proxy server. It means that whenever a workstation is turned on, it requests for an IP address from the proxy server (for dynamically configured IP address) and connect to the network after IP address is acquired. As connection is established, each system can now communicate and share resources within the same subnetwork and to server following the concepts discuss in your Computer Network Class.”

Fourth question was to explain how do you go along with the maintenance of the system. According to Sir Reyes,” Basically, our servers are expected to be in good condition since it is required to be up 24/7. Daily, during my vacant period, monitoring on the servers are observed that includes checking logs, checking hardware performance such as CPU health, etc. If problems are observed, remedies are then and then applied. Once in a week, regular overall checkup is observed as preventive maintenance to ensure not to experience longer downtime if possible.”

Fifth question was to explain does the system follow a specific standard. According to Sir Reyes, “As I was appointed as the Network Administrator, everything was already in place except for some minor changes. Basically, different networking standards was already observed such as cabling standards, TIA/EIA 568A-B, different IEEE standards as discussed in your Computer Networks Subject, etc.”

Sixth question was to explain how is the security of the system if are there any vulnerabilities, risk, corresponding mitigation techniques, access control. According to Sir Reyes,” As I have mentioned, we have implemented both software and hardware based filtering/firewall. Basically, Risks or vulnerabilities and different mitigation techniques were considered to increase security in our network. Aside from filtering/firewall, constant monitoring on networks activity also increases the security of the system.”

Last question was to explain if are there any interference during what (most) times do these occur and explain their effects especially with regards to the business of the university. According to Sir Reyes,” Major Interferences are normally encountered as an effect of unforeseen and beyond our control events such as black outs, and the like. The said interference would of course affect University’s day-to-day businesses for obviously this will paralyze all our activities that rely on electricity and further this might cause damage on our network devices, etc. that may later be the reason for longer downtime. Problems encountered by our providers such as connection to the National/International Gateway also affect University’s business such as correlating to University’s Business Partners outside and within the country.”

The general category of network specialist includes individuals who do a lot of different work with various computer networking systems.

Given the chance to redesign the existing setup, enumerate and discuss your keypoints for an effective and efficient network environment ideal for the university. Before hearing the answer of Sir Reyes I would say yes but now after hearing his answer I would say no. Even Sir Reyes has not redesigned the previous network environment and he just improved and maintained it instead. I think the current network environment is already working well with the university’s functions and only some function needs development and enhancements on the performance to have a quality

Relative to your answer in Assignment 1 .... what's your take on the design of the enrollment system?

Design of the Enrollment System

Relating my answer in assignment 1, with observation and to the new enrollment system implemented this semester are not so organized because of long line in the registrar and cashier and sometimes cause of delay of student to enroll on that day.

With this, the main purpose in design of the enrollment is to communicate effectively to the viewers of the system. The communication effectiveness is measured by the speed, accuracy and ease with which the information content can be easily to understand. These provide practical guidance for both designers and users because the designer is just communicating to the user telling him where to go.

Analyzing the design of the enrollment system would lessen the delay of the student.

Be Specific. First question, where part of the design cause the delay of the student, then on that part we may improved well or be specific so that the user can easily get it.

Consistency. A consistent approach to layout of the enrollment system allows the user can quickly understand and confidently predict the location of information controls across the enrollment system.

All these actions must properly well-planned to come up with a better result that would satisfy the needs of the university.

The above diagram showed the enrollment process SY 2010-1010 of USEP.

Being a student in this university for at least four years, I have witnessed a lot of transformations in this university. When I enroll in this university many process I have to gone through. Some of it is repeating because we have to fill up information to our college and same also in the UGTO. It is not an organized and cause of delay to enroll a student. As time goes by, the university see this problem and propose a solution that would address to resolve it. They centralize the system that connects to all departments so that it will lessen the enrollment process.

Assuming I’m tapped by the university president to evaluate the new enrollment system implemented this semester, and enumerates my observations/comments and suggests possible areas and ways where improvements can be made in this university.

My evaluation to the new enrollment system implemented this semester are not so organized because of long line in the registrar and cashier and sometimes cause of delay of student to enroll on that day.

My observations/comments and suggests possible areas and ways where improvements can be made in this university.

• Clearance and Student Account: Student should facilitate their clearance and student account before enrollment so that it will not delay them and they will not also delay others.

• OSS (Scholars Only): Scholars should facilitate their scholarship before enrollment. Sometimes it may take days to them to validate their card cause of many process to undergo.

• Miscellaneous Fee: Sometimes, pay all the fees coming from different organization like Local Council fee, Obrero Campus Student Council fee and collegiate headlight fee cause of delay of the student. I more convenient to assigned each student to each department to collect fees.

• Advising: Before doing these, you should accomplish the two mentions above, before going to this process and also you should completed your grades. And then they will give you a PRF.

• Encoding: After fill-up your PRF you should give it to the assigned person to your department. But looking the PRF and the COR, it is not consistent to the data.
• Student Account (Scholars Only): From all the process, it is the easiest because they just see your name if you are a scholars and stamp your card.

• Cashier: It is longest line among all cause only 3 and sometimes 2 cashier are available to accommodates different colleges with lots number of student.

• Registrar: It is also one of the most numbers of students waiting in this area. It is more convenient to assigned different staff in each department to different window.

All in all enrollment process should illustrate in this university should be complete and brief. Complete in terms of there should be a Library in the diagram so that student will not forget to validate their library card. It should brief and the words are easy to understand.

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