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| Simulates human intelligence such as the ability to reason and learn |
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| A category of AI that attempts to emulate the way the human brain works |
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Decision Support System
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| Models information to support managers and business professionals during the decision-making process |
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| Computerized advisory programs that imitate the reasoning processes of experts in solving difficult problems |
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| A mathematical method of handling imprecise or subjective information |
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Management Information Systems
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| A general name for the business function and academic discipline covering the application of people, technologies, and procedures - collectively call information systems - to solve business problems |
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Random Access Memory
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| The computer's primary working memory, in which program instructions and data are stored so that they can be accessed directly by the CPU via the processor's high-speed external data bus |
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| Group of eight bits represents one natural language character |
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| A field (or group of fields) that uniquely identifies a given entity in a table |
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| The process of analyzing data to extract information not offered by the raw data alone |
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| Computer that is designed to request information from a server |
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| An omnidirectional wireless technology that provides limited-range voice and data transmission over the unlicensed 2.4-GHz frequency band, allowing connections with a wide variety of fixed and portable devices that normally would have to be cabled together |
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| An intelligent connecting device that examines each packet of data it receives and then decides which way to send it onward toward its destination |
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| The portion of a computer's primary storage that does not lose its contents when one switches off the power |
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| A logical collection of information - gathered from many different operational databases - that supports business analysis activities and decision-making tasks |
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| Computer that is dedicated to providing information in response to external requests |
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