BMTS 242: Computer and Systems
Lecture 7:
Computer Software
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• System Software
Basic Application Software
• Specialized Application Software
Yousef Alharbi
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Website http://faculty.sau.edu.sa/y.alharbi/en
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• Specialized applications make it possible to perform advanced tasks at home.
• Home users can create Webs sites, work with graphic images, and create music or art.
• Robots now provide security and assistance in homes.
• Competent end users need to be aware of specialized applications
– Graphics programs
– Audio and video editing software
– Multimedia
– Web authoring
– Artificial intelligence
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• Graphics Programs
• Audio and Video Software
• Multimedia Programs
• Web Authoring Programs
• Artificial Intelligence
– Virtual Reality
– Knowledge-based Systems
– Robotics
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Desktop publishing
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Image editors
• Illustration programs
• Image galleries
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Graphic suites
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• Video editing software
– Enhances digital video footage
– Apple's iMovie & Windows
Movie Maker
• Audio editing software
– Creates and edits audio clips
– Can create your own MP3s
– Apple ’ s Garage Band and
Sony ’ s ACID
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• Capture Video
• Edit a Movie
• Create a DVD
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• The integration of a variety of media into one presentation
– Video
– Music
– Voice
– Graphics
– Text
• Include user interactivity
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Links can be to…
– Video
– Sound
– Graphics
– Text Files
• Buttons are links and provide the ability to navigate through a presentation
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• Special programs used to create multimedia presentations
• Bring together all the video, audio, graphics, and text elements
• Popular programs
– Adobe Director
– Toolbook
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• Corporations use the Web to reach new customers
• Many individuals create their own personal sites, called Web logs or blogs , to keep in touch with friends and family
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Web Site Design
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Web Authoring
Programs
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• Interactive multimedia form of communication
– Create a graphical map of overall content
– Add multimedia elements like animation
• Macromedia's Flash
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• Known as Web page editors or HTML editors
– Provide support for Web site design
– Creates HTML coding
• Popular programs
– Adobe Dreamweaver
– NetObjects Fusion
– Microsoft Expression
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• Attempts to simulate human senses, thought processes, and actions
• Designed to help people and organizations become more productive
• Three areas of AI
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Virtual reality
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Knowledge-based (expert) systems
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Robotics
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• Artificial or simulated reality
– Generated in 3-D by a computer
– Commonly known as
VR , artificial reality , or virtual environments
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• Artificial intelligence that uses a database for assistance
• Database is known as a knowledge base
• Many use " fuzzy logic "
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• The field of study concerned with using robots
• Robots are computer-controlled machines
– Mimic the motor activities of living things
– Four types of robots
• Perception system robots
• Industrial robots
• Mobile robots
• Household robots
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