Sunday, October 14, 2012

Operating System


Operating System

Imagine if there was a teleportation technology that was able to teleport students to classes? Imagine that. Anyway to a more realistic idea, imagine if like there was facial recognition technology installed in every hall. This idea might be somewhat out of the realm to others but I believe that if this existed it would make the lives of college students especially SU students easier. With the facial recognition technology students can have access to their halls easier, faster and more efficient rather than to wait in a long line for check-ins.

        This week’s lecture of operating systems thought me personally that for my idea of facial recognition technology to work I would need a set of software programs.  These programs will contain instructions that work together to coordinate all the activities among computer hardware resources. With the knowledge that operating system performs functions such as starting and shutting down a computer, providing a user interface, managing programs, managing memory, coordinating task, configuring devices, establishing an internet connection, monitoring performance, providing file management and other utilities and automatically updating itself, it will be an essential tool to manage and perform within my technology.
       However, with the size of my technology, it would have to use a different size operating system because operating system are written to run on a specific type of computer. I would purchase the cross platform program because it runs on the same on multiple operating systems. With that I can install the software programs, which will run on all the facial recognition technology throughout campus.
       So if anything was to happen to the system as in not functioning at its best I would be able to shut it off and restore everything back to normal. Meaning I can reboot the system if the technology wasn’t working perfectly. With the user interface I can manipulate the data stored in the technology to adjust to any changes as to if a student changed majors or halls, I can adjust the system to recognize the student and the changes.

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