Assignment 1

Management Information System 

This is a system that provides information needed to manage organizations effectively. Management information systems involve three primary resources: Technology, Information, and People. It's important to recognize that while all three resources are key components when studying management information systems, the most important resource is people.

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Hypertext

Hypertext is the presentation of information as a linked network of nodes which readers are free to navigate in a non-linear fashion. Hypertext is basically the same as regular text that can be creatively link to each other. When we select an object we can see all the others that are linked to it. we can at many points skip from one place to another, go forward or back, get much more detail on the current topic, change direction and navigate in any way that we desire.

Hypermedia

Hypermedia is the generalization of hypertext. Hypermedia documents contain links not only to other pieces of text, but also to other forms of media - sounds, images, and movies. This means that browsers might not display a text file, but might display images or sound or animations. Hypermedia simply combines hypertext and multimedia.

For example, you are reading a text on the Japanese language. You select a Japanese phrase, and then hear the phrase as spoken in the native tongue.

Multimedia

Multimedia means that computer information can be represented through audio, video, and animation in addition to traditional media for example: text, graphics drawings, and images. Multimedia can be used for teaching different topics in math, informatics, foreign language learning, biology, chemistry, etc.

Now a days almost all use the internet for communication, for studying, for business and some for applications. The Internet can now be accessed almost anywhere by numerous means, especially through mobile Internet devices.

Source

1.      http://www.sjsu.edu/isystems/pics/MIS%20banner.jpg

2.      http://www.cs.cf.ac.uk/Dave/ISE_Multimedia/node10.html

3.      http://internships.about.com/od/internshipsquestions/g/whatismultimedia.html

4.      http://faculty.washington.edu/farkas/dfpubs/Farkas-Hypertext%20And%20Hypermedia.pdf