Informatics Practices · Ch 2 — Emerging Trends

Summary

Artificial Intelligence endeavours to simulate the natural intelligence of human beings into machines, thus making them intelligent.
Machine learning comprises algorithms that use data to learn on their own and make predictions.
Natural language processing (NLP) facilitates communicating with intelligent systems using a natural language.
Virtual reality allows a user to look at, explore, and interact with virtual surroundings, just like one can do in the real world.
The superimposition of computer-generated perceptual information over the existing physical surroundings is called augmented reality.
Robotics can be defined as the science primarily associated with the design, fabrication, theory, and application of robots.
Big data holds rich information and knowledge which can be of high business value. The five characteristics of big data are: Volume, Velocity, Variety, Veracity, and Value.
Data analytics is the process of examining data sets in order to draw conclusions about the information they contain.
The Internet of Things (IoT) is a network of devices that have embedded hardware and software to communicate (connect and exchange data) with other devices on the same network.
A sensor is a device that takes input from the physical environment and uses built-in computing resources to perform predefined functions upon detection of specific input, then processes the data before passing it on. …