TEST 4
ITEC2110 Fall 2010 Test 4, Dr. Jim Rowan
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1) Humans are very well tuned to hearing their own names. In fact, they can hear their
names spoken in a conversation across the room when they would not be able to follow
the conversation. What is this ability called?
2) If you were to enter the URL: http://www.pondliner.com into your browser what is the
NAME of the page that URL would retrieve?
3) If you were to enter the URL:
http://www.pondliner.com/product/algaefix/algefix1.html
into your browser what is the NAME of the page that URL would retrieve?
4) What kind of filter would result in gainFreq1.png when applied to gainFreq.png?
5) The directory and file name make up the third part of a URL. What are the other two
parts?
6) Looking at gainFreq4.jpg what can you say about the amount of high frequency in this
recording?
7) What kind of filter would result in gainFreq6.jpg when applied to gainFreq5.jpg?
8) What kind of filter would result in gainFreq7.jpg when applied to gainFreq5.jpg?
9) Who created the programming language Alice?
10) Who made the first web server and web browser?
11) Who invented the wiki?
12) Who said “the best way to predict the future is to invent it”?
13) What was it that Steven Jobs saw at XEROX PARC and later used to invent the
Macintosh?
14) Who invented the desktop metaphor?
15) Some music is not controlled or owned by anyone. Classical music is one example of
this. In intellectual property terms, what do we call this type of music?
16) Which type of intellectual property allows use but requires that you acquire written
permission from the author as well as providing a citation.
17) Give two of the four specific factors used to determine Fair Use.
18) In the Internet, what does the DNS do?
19) Who does OCILLA protect?
20) What two factors affect your ability to tell where sound comes from?
21) US copyright extends for a specific length of time after which the work is said to
enter the __________________________ ?
22) OCILLA is spelled out in Title II of what US Act, signed into law by President
Clinton in 1998?
23) In order for a work to be protected by copyright, the copyright symbol must appear
on the work, true or false?
24) If you have a digital recording that was sampled with too few quantization levels,
what can be added to it to improve it’s perceived quality?
25) One fairly common form of compression applied to human voice is called
“companding”. In this scheme what is the difference between the way quiet sounds are
captured and the way loud sounds are captured?