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 1. How does employee freedom, like the 20% of free time Google encourages its employees to spend on any project they want, deliver better business?

 

Employess have free food, fitness facilities, massage rooms, hair dresses, laundry rooms and on-site doctors. They have all they want at their fingertips and that makes employes dedicate more time at proyects and makes them really want different things. Employee wellbeing is the key for leadership, pride in their work, enjoyment,fairness and success in the company. 

 

 

 2. In your own words describe how the workplace culture at Google encourages innovation and unique creations for the company? How does working at Google and the environment there affect its workers?

 

The diversity of people and cultures at Google makes the coexsitence between workers different and pleasant at the same time.The neccesities of the workers at Google also make them to come up with new creations for the company. Examples are the indoor amacs, the indoor aquarium to maintain employes happy, the pots with 100 different escenaries, the fire pole and the indoor slide. 

 

 

 

 3. What are the requirements to work for Google? And what is different about the way they hire employees at Google?

 

Google looks for smart, team-oriented people who can get things done. They look for leadership, people who have a variety of strengths,passions and know how to solve problems. Bias to action  and posession of collaborative nature. What is different about the way they hire is that the propsects are interview by four or five bloggers. Also some of the interviewers could be potential teamates,but some interviewers will be with other teams.This helps them see how the cnadiates collaborate and fit in at Google overall.

 

 

 

 4.  How many search queries does Google handle a day?

 

Every day Google answers more than one billion questions from people around the globe in 181 countries and 146 languages.

 

 

 5.In your own words discuss how Google's constantly refined search algorithm changed the way we all access and even think about information.

 

Google is refining search algorithm by returning only the most relevant results at the top of the page, sparing people from combing through the less relevant results below. For example,PageRank, named for Larry Page. It works by counting the number and quality of links to a page to determine a rough estimate of how important the website is. The underlying assumption is that more important websites are likely to receive more links from other websites.

 

 

 6.Take a look at the following story about Google's top secret data center. Now why would Google want to keep its server room as a secret?

 

Google is one of the world’s largest hardware manufacturers, thanks to the fact that it builds much of its own equipment. Maybe Google wated to maintain their secrecy because if the information of their equipment was shared google will not have that special charateristic and other competitors will try to match their results.

 

 

 7. What are the benefits of working as a Google employee?

 

*Googlers and their families are covered with travel insurance and emergency assistance

 

*Googlers get legal advice at no cost and, in the US, also get common legal services at a generous group discount.

 

*Parents get time off and some extra spending money to help them welcome their new baby.

 

* On-site physicians and nurses, convenient medical services, and comprehensive health care coverage

 

*Free food and transportation.

 

 

 8.Name at least 5 different positions at Google (ex: software engineer, Google tester, interaction designer) and describe what they do?

 

 

 Software engineer: Writes code for web-based applications, create robust high-volume production applications, and develop prototypes.

 

Interaction Designer: Helps to define the user model and user interface for new and existing Google products and features.

 

Statiscian/Engineering Analyst:Research and develop methods for measuring and analyzing ads quality. Research new algorithms and methods for optimizing ads quality and revenue.

Staffing Services Manager: Lead and manage a team who support clients across Tech, Portfolio and Global Business, providing recruitment coordination, resume screening and job posting services.

Quality Evaluator:Evaluate ads and flag areas of concern. Ensure Google advertising policies and standards are upheld. Work with linguists, engineering teams, and tools to improve our advertising quality.

 

9. Talk about at least 3 projects that Google is currently working on. What do they want to accomplish? How long will they take to complete?

Google Glass is a wearable computer with a head-mounted display (HMD) that is being developed by Google in the Project Glass research and development project, with the mission of producing a mass-market ubiquitous computer. The Google driverless car is a project by Google that involves developing technology for driverless cars.Google X Lab, sometimes known as Google X, is a secret facility run by Google thought to be located somewhere in the Bay Area of Northern California.

10. Look at the following story about why recent college graduates should not work for Google. Why does the writer argue recent graduates should not work at Google?they don't know the action and the work is they need experience and years of practice

 

What is a computer "program"?A computer is a digital system with microelectronics technology capable of processing data from a set of instructions called program


Why is the term "variable" used to describe the element of a program which stores information?
spaces reserved in the memory, as the name suggests, content can change over the execution of a program

When we talk about variables used in computer programing. What is the process of carving out a piece of memory and assigning it a name? creating, allocating or declaring a variable



What are the two different variable data types?
Numerical and Logical.


How many operations can a computer perform at one time? one



What is cel-animation and why is it intensive labor? oldest animation because this handmade



Why are most animated cartoons now produced entirely digitally? because is more animation



What was the first fully computer-animated feature film?because advanced technology and is more fun


What was the first fully synchronized sound on film?sonorous

assigment 9

1. Http://disneyworld.disney.go.com/new-fantasyland/ go and look around a bit. Now go http://www.byteland.org/angeloflife. Now why do you think the website. Com is more exciting than the org website. And has more links, ads and other distractions options to click? Because it reminds us of our childhood


2. If you had to build your own website from scratch, what would you like and why? Vetir ideas as well because that's what girls like us



3. How do you think the developers would have to work with you to make your website possible? Would it be nearly impossible to build a website for yourself? Why?



4. What would you like the name of your website? Enter this name in the address bar of Internet, it has already had?
www.outfits.com



5. Explain why flash websites with videos, images and color take longer to load the pages with text only? because it has more animation



6. Give an example of an algorithm that is used to technology in their daily lives? Explain the exact steps that you (each time) to make your technology work.

1. Discuss what the main idea of the video is? to show every one how the actual life of the young people is and how it has already changed

2. Do you see yourself as past oriented or future oriented? Why? actually i think both because im like taking care of the future but sometimes i enjoy a lot to remember the good memories

3. Do you agree or disagree with the speaker in the video? Explain why? i agreed because iim religios and i see that every body takes care about the pleassure and everything change at how was in the past

4. Do you agree with the speaker's view that young adults' minds are being "digitally rewired"? Explain your answer. yes because i have a music teacher that yesterday monday 4th ghive us an example he told us that sometimes when he dont have nothing to do watch facebook although they dont have any message or whatever but the case is that the tecnology sometimes is more addicted than the drugs


1. What problems does the article mention that children run into when they use search engines?
that it is very helpful for the childrens but in some of the cases they can find some things like for adults and it can afect them

2. What suggestions have been offered for how search engines can improve their product to lessen children’s problems searching? that some of the engines can include more images in their articles so it can be more entertaniment an can attract more the atention of the childrens

3. Do you search using keywords or questions? How does the article characterize these two types of searching? like half and half the article says that the searcher some times understan the keyword but it is more probably to answer a question

4. Have you tried using images or videos to search? How does the article characterize this type of searching?no but it says that is more entertainment and it can atract the atention of the childrens

5. What advice would you give to Internet search engine developers for how they should improve their product? Do you think any of the improvements mentioned in the article are promising? Why? to put some more interestin websites where you can find the information. and The move toward voice-activated search can change the way to search because it is like more intelligence so in a future we could eliminate the keyboard and just say what we want to find

assigment 4

Assignment 4

1. Are iphones examples of multimedia? Why or why not?

•  yes because contain sound,imagens,videos,et.

2. Give an example of digital technology. Now give an example of analog technology. Which form of technology is older?

In digital technology, the analog wave is sampled at some interval, and then turned into numbers that are stored in the digital device. On a CD, the sampling rate is 44,000 samples per second. So on a CD, there are 44,000 numbers stored per second of music. To hear the music, the numbers are turned into a voltage wave that approximates the original wave.

3. What is live-action? What is animation? Find an example of each type (live-action, animation) from youtube.com and post the url link(s) here

Live-action must be stored as video

 Animation may be represented in other more flexible or efficient ways

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xxMcViTf7KU

4. In multimedia, how are programs often written?

• programs are often written in a scripting language, such as JavaScript

5. _program________ is a set of data that consists of a series of coded software instructions to control the operation of a computer or other machine.

6. Video, animation and _sound_____ are time-based media.

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Assignment 5

You may use internet sources to answer the following questions. Please site your sources with the web link to your information. It is mandatory to write in complete sentences.

 

 

1. Share at least 2 facts about Sir Tim Berners-Lee that were not mentioned in the Youtube video viewed in our last class. Make sure you cite at least 2 different websites.

• He is a profesor
• In 2004 he was awarded a knighthood by queen elizabeth 11 of the united kingdom

2. Let's say you were a reporter for the El Paso Times and interviewing Sir Tim Berners-Lee for a piece in the technology section. Create at least 3 questions you would ask him. (You can ask him anything as long as it has to do with the World Wide Web, technology, etc.)

•  where did you create it?
• what inspired yo to create world wide web

 

3. How can audio or video be manipulate by computers?

•  aplications that convert audio to video

 

4. Name the five characteristics of algorithms.

 

•  input
• output
• definitenses
• effective
• termination

5. Define unambiguous. Now in your own words, use it in a sentence.

•  If you describe a message or comment as unambiguous, you mean that it is clear and cannot be understood wrongly

 

6. What is the most recognizable form of multimedia in Texas? the most recognizable form of multimedia is the world wide web