Computing Innovation & Problem Solving Review

Question	Answer
Internet of Things (IoT)	scenario in which objects, animals or people are provided with unique identifiers & the ability to transfer data over a network without requiring human-to-human or human-to-computer interaction
machine-to-machine communication (M2M)	devices talking to like devices
Crowdsourcing	refers to outsourcing a common task to a group of distributed individuals who may not know each other. It is used in many ways and more are coming into use
Human Computation	refers to the science that underlies online crowd-powered systems working with computing
Citizen Science	the collection and analysis of data relating to the natural world by members of the general public, typically as part of a collaborative project with professional scientists
Digital Divide	an economic and social inequality according to categories of persons in a given population in their access to, use of, or knowledge of information and communication technologies (ICT)
Decision Problem	any arbitrary yes-or-no question on an infinite set of inputs
Undecidable Problem	a decision problem for which it is known to be impossible to construct a single algorithm that always leads to a correct yes-or-no answer
Heuristic	any approach to problem solving, learning, or discovery that employs a practical method no guaranteed to be optimal or perfect but sufficient for the immediate goal

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	Created by Shannon Anderson-Rush over 4 years ago