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Introduction to Computer Science

Thought Provokers

Introduction to Computer ScienceThought Provokers

Thought Provokers

1 .
Consider our start-up company that is 100% committed to leveraging innovative technologies as a business growth facilitator. Describe how it can best use an operating system to create products or services that can generate business (e.g., mobile health application that detects elevated levels of stress and suggests playing games, listening to songs, or watching videos to reduce stress). Give precise examples and explain how the start-up would be able to scale the resulting business (i.e., keep sustaining the cost of doing business while increasing its number of customers).
2 .
Consider our start-up company that is 100% committed to leveraging innovative technologies as a business growth facilitator. Describe how it could leverage a new operating system design to support an innovative application that leverages the use of various sensors located at the edge of the network. Give some precise examples and explain how the start-up would be able to scale this approach.
3 .
Consider our start-up company that is 100% committed to leveraging innovative technologies as a business growth facilitator. Describe how it could leverage IPC and concurrency control to support an application that makes it possible to collect data at the edge of the network from a large variety of sensors and enable processing of that data in real time. Give some precise examples and explain how the start-up would be able to scale this approach in the context of an epidemic such as COVID-19.
4 .
Consider our start-up company that is 100% committed to leveraging innovative technologies as a business growth facilitator. Describe how it could leverage memory management to support very memory-demanding applications, making it possible to perform all computations on data in memory. Are there some examples of similar technologies that already exist today? Give some precise examples and explain how the start-up would be able to scale this approach.
5 .
Consider our start-up company that is 100% committed to leveraging innovative technologies as a business growth facilitator. Describe how it could leverage a distributed file system to make it possible to gather mission-critical data in real time from various users located at the edge of the network. Give some precise examples and explain how the start-up would be able to scale this approach.
6 .
Consider our startup company that is 100% committed to leveraging innovative technologies as a business growth facilitator. Describe how it could leverage OS technology obsolescence. Give some precise examples and explain how the startup would be able to scale this approach.
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