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 Students are required to describe future IT
This topic will help students to:
applications in four areas, AI, Fuzzy
 Forecast the development of information
Logic, Intelligent Agent and Mobile
technology.
Communication.
Students are also
required to state why the IT applications
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are useful.
2 periods
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Content of This Topic
To achieve a pass, students should describe
reasonable IT applications in future.
The section in this topic is:
Merit
 Examples of new technology such as
artificial intelligence, smart card, mobile
To achieve a merit, students should describe IT
communicators, etc.
applications in future sensibly and state some
advantages of the applications.
Specific Achievement Objectives
Distinction
At the end of this section, students should be
able
to
forecast
the
development
information technology more sensibly.
of
To achieve a distinction, students should
describe
reasonable
and
practical
IT
applications in the future and state some
advantages of the applications.
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This topic focuses on the future IT applications
in the fields: AI, Fuzzy Logic, Intelligent
Agent and Mobile Communication. Students
are given the worksheet and required to write
1.
What kind of jobs are threatened by
down three applications of the above fields
robots? Consider some jobs you may
today and suggest an application in each field
wish to have now or in the future. Is it
in future. Students are also required to explain
possible that the workers job be
why the suggested applications are useful.
replaced by robots?
Welding Worker
More and more manufacturers use welding
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robots for welding various metal parts to make
a machine. Welding robots can only replace
Students may search useful information for the
the workers in the regular or predefined tasks,
applications in the Internet.
but the robots cannot deal with some special
tasks.
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Time allowed: 80 minutes
Future trend of information technology and applications
Description
Discuss the IT applications today and future in the following aspects: Artificial Intelligence (AI),
Fuzzy Logic, Intelligent Agent and Mobile Communication.
Simulation Program 4.6.1 (AI)
Picture 4.6.2 (FL)
Picture 4.6.3(IA)
Picture 4.6.4(MC)
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Name: ___________________________________
Class: ________________________(__________)
Date: ____________________________________
Artificial Intelligence
State the applications of AI today.
1.
2.
3.
Suggest and describe one application of AI in the future and state the advantages.
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Fuzzy Logic
State the applications of Fuzzy Logic today.
1.
2.
3.
Suggest and describe one application of Fuzzy Logic in the future and state the advantages.
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Intelligent Agent
State the applications of Intelligent Agent today.
1.
2.
3.
Suggest and describe one application of Intelligent Agent in the future and state the
advantages.
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Mobile Communication
State the applications of Mobile Communication today.
1.
2.
3.
Suggest and describe one application of Mobile Communication in the future and state the
advantages.
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Future trend of information and applications
Artificial Intelligence
Group of related technologies that attempt to develop machines to emulate human-like qualities, such as
learning, reasoning, communicating, seeing, and hearing.
Fuzzy Logic
Method of dealing with imprecise data and uncertainty, with problems that have many answers rather than one.
Intelligent Agent
Computer program that performs work tasks on a user’s behalf, including roaming networks and compiling data.
Mobile Communicators
Users with handheld personal communicators or personal digital assistants would be able to send and receive
voice, fax, text and video messages anywhere with a mobile phone.
Reference URLs:
http://cuisiling.home.sohu.com Artificial Intelligence.
http://ai.iit.nrc.ca/ai point.html Institute for Information Technology.
http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~softagents Intelligent Software Agents.
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