Assignment 5

 

Assignment 5

1. 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 workplace culture at google encourages innovation and unique creations for the company by motivating employees to create more things for google. Also by motivating them to become more creative because that's what google needs. What google needs is really smart and creative people for the company to succeed even more.

 2. How does employee freedom, like the 20% of free time Google encourages its employees to spend on any project they want, deliver better business?
Employee freedom encourages employees by them wanting to go everyday to work and to come up with new ideas that will make google grow even more. Also that the freedom that google gives to the employees makes the company grow even more because this helps the employees to increase their capability of doing things that google wants their employees to do, such as being smart and creative.
 
3. What are the requirements to work for Google? And what is different about the way they hire employees at Google?
The requirements to work for google are that you have to be very smart but not only that, also that you have to be very creative because of the way that google works. The difference between how normal jobs hire people and how google hires people is that for google, they hire you by how creative of a person you are. For example, a way that google can hire you is by giving you a Rubik's Cube and put you with other people in the same room and the first one to solve it gets to work for google.

4. How many search queries does Google handle a day?
Google handles 3 billion daily search queries a day.

5. In your own words discuss how Google's constantly refined search algorithm changed the way we all access and even think about information.
The way we all access information is very impressive. We can look something up and in less than a second we have in our hands what we need. It's amazing how just by clicking something, we have the information that we were looking for. The way we think about information is that it is very easy to find whatever type of information online.  

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 would like to keep the server room as a secret because the noise is a high-pitched thrum from fans that control airflow. It is necessary for people to enter that room with hearing protection since the noise is a high-pitched.  

7. What are the benefits of working as a Google employee?
The benefits of working as a google employee is that the employees get a lot of things free. For example, they get really good food that is for free. They also get to wash their clothes there and the amazing part is that everything is free. The most amazing part is that they also lend employees a car for them to be able to go to work everyday.

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

• field engineering-Provide input from the field on revisions to proposed construction, Review and understand network designs
• network engineer- Rack and stack, install, commission and test routers, transport (DWDM) equipment, and other network devices in new and existing network nodes across Google's global network (travel domestically up to 50%).
• sofware engineer in test- Analyze and decompose a complicated software system and design a strategy to test this system
• product manager- Identify market opportunities and define product vision and strategy
• interaction designer- Help to define the user model and user interface for new and existing Google products and features

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?

• risis response- develop tools like google public alerts, google person finder and google crisis map.
• google flu and dengue trends- used to show disease activity in near real-time  and calculates level of dengue activity for that area
• google for nonprofits- program offers approved nonprofit organizations access to exclusive google products and resources to expand their  impact.

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?
Recent graduates should not work at google because it's a huge company that has 33,077 employees worldwide. Previous recent graduates that have worked for google recommend that recent graduates should apply to a small company where they will have bigger responsibilities day one rather than just following the crowd and the well known path of joining a giant organization. It is better to actually be someone in your company than just one more number like in google. 

11. How is Google the same or different than other search engines, like Yahoo or Bing?
The difference between google and other search engines such as Yahoo or Bing is that google is a very simple format to use. Similarities between these search engines are that the three of them are three different types of search engines that helps you look up information in a very fast way.

Online Poll Questions Natalia Uranga

1. Do you think the results are 100% accurate? Why or why not? I think that the results are 100% accurate because the questions were really simple and most of them were based on personal opinions. There was just only one question that was based on vocabulary and that wasn't 100% accurate because not all of them got it right.
2. How much of an impact do you think the wording of the questions has on the answers you received? I think that the wording of the questions didn't make a great impact. The questions were asked really straight forward and bases on opinions.
3. Did you get the results you expected from your online polls? Why? In most of the questions I did expect the results. Most of the questions were questions that I already knew the opinions of most of the students that answered my questions.
4. If you wanted to do an online poll with the students of Tecnologico de Montorrey asking them how much time and effort they spent doing homework this year, what are the steps you would take to complete that online poll? To complete an online poll for students at Tec de Monterrey, i would first open my blogger then click on Principles of Technology. Then I will click on Google docs where they will create a form by clicking tools. Once ready to create the new form, I rather chose the scale type poll for them to answer how much effort they put while doing homework. After creating the poll, you link your poll by highlighting the text then by clicking link. Finally your poll is ready to be answered.
5. Do you think online polling could help the administration of Tec de Montorrey find out more about their students? Or do you think that the results would not be accurate? Why or why not? I think that the online polls could help the administration of Tec because it's something that helps them know things about the school. I think that the results will be accurate because the questions will be about how the school is and things that have to do with Tec.
6. How do you think the results of your polls would be different if you asked your classmates the questions in person? I think that if I would of have asked my classmates the questions I made, in person, we would of discuss more about the answers. We would of go more over just an answer.
7. In what ways do you think online polling using Google Spreadsheets can be improved? Or was it easier to create an online poll than you originally thought? Explain. I thought that creating online polls was easier than what I thought. It was very simple to follow the steps that the teacher explained. After creating one poll, the rest of them were a piece of cake.

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Review for Exam 1

Definitions - Review for exam 1

 

The difference between analog and digital:

 Random Access Memory (RAM) - the most common computer memory that can be used by programs to perform necessary tasks while the computer is on; an integrated circuit memory chip allows information to be stored or accessed in any order and all storage locations are equally accessible
   
 Read-Only Memory (ROM) -

World Wide Web – an information system on the Internet that allows documents to be connected to other documents by hypertext links, enabling the user to search for information by moving from one document to another.

Data (computer) – quantities of standard information used for reference.

 

Program - a sequence of instructions, stored in any medium, that can be interpreted and executed by a computer.

Hypertext – a software system that links topics on the screen to related information and graphics, which are typically accessed by a point-and-click method.

 

Hardware – physical parts of a computer system.

Software – the programs and other operating information used by a computer.

Title (resource) – 

Creator (resource) – 

Subject (resource) -

Publisher (resource) -

Contributor (webpage) –

Format (resource) -

MP3 – a type of technology that allows a music or audio file to be compressed down into a very small amount of space while preserving the original level of sound quality when it is played.

Cyberbully - the use of technology to harass, threaten, embarrass or target another person.

Database - an organized collection of data.

Desktop - a system of organization of icons on a screen.

E-mail -  text messages that may contain files, images, or other attachments sent through a network to a specified individual or group of individuals.

Home page - the name of the main page of a website where visitors can find hyperlinks to other pages in the site.

Keyword -  a word or group of words that help the search locate a better match for their search

Password - a set of secret characters or words utilized to gain access to a computer, web page, network resource, or data.

Paste - an operating systems and programs action that allows a user to copy or cut an object or text from one location and move it into another location.

Search Engines - a software program or script available through the Internet that searches documents and files for keywords and returns the results of any files containing those keywords.

URL Address -  used for addressing documents accessible over the Internet. (Uniform Resource Locator)

User name - a name given to a user on a computer or computer network.
 

File format – the structure of a file that is best viewed with the program it was designed for.

 

Hacker - any individual who illegally breaks into computer systems to damage or steal information.
 

Keyboard - one of the primary input devices used with a computer that allow a computer user to input letters, numbers, and other symbols into a computer.

  

Retrieve (document) - the process of searching for, locating and returning data.