Essays on Information Science and Technology

The rapid increase in the usage of hand-held devices by drivers in various states in the United States has led to growing public concern over road safety and the impact on the performance of the driver (Jacobson 1586). Over the last two decade, wireless subscriber connections in the United States...

Google was founded in 1999 by Sergey Brin and Larry Page who branded their company motto as, “Don’t Be Evil”. In 2000, Google.com started providing a version of the Chinese language. Nonetheless, most of the time the website was not easily accessible since it was slow and unreliable, this is...

The world is increasingly getting interconnected via the world s economies. As the number of new states increases in the world, there has been seen an explosion in the number of nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) and intergovernmental organizations (IGOs). IGOs have only states as members and the authority of decision making...

The first premise anarchy, high-value information was costly to send or receive because of factors such as nation preference, strategic misrepresentations of preferences for outcomes such as peace, threats and bribes and costly behaviors. The powerful European countries falsely believed that war could be quick and decisive. Thus, governments falsely...

The hackers had a distinct behavior of engaging in online campaign activities which would influence the Americans’ presidential choices. They made use of Facebook and Twitter to undermine the popularity of Hillary Clinton amongst the population. The two social media platforms allowed the attackers to spread defaming information about Hillary’s...

Governments and organizations have scaled up measures to increase the collection and utilization of data. After the introduction of the Internet and the increase in the use of gadgets, big data became one of the choices that decision-makers are embracing to leverage the broadening range of information assets for the...

Source: www.state.gov/j/ct/rls/crt/2016/272241.htm. The table compares the number of terrorists’ attacks in the worst-hit countries around the world in the year 2015 and 2016. The table offers a quick comparison of shifts in the number of terror attacks as well as arranges the countries according to the order of frequency of attacks....

Globalization can be defined as a phenomenon where regional economies, civilizations, and societies have become united through a world-spanning link of communication and trade. The process of globalization has come with both positive and negative effects in relatively equal measure. With regards to this paper, there will be a discussion...

The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) was formed in 1947 after the ratification of the National Security Act by Harry S. Truman 33rd President of the U.S. ("About CIA — Central Intelligence Agency"). The functions of the CIA directors are numerous but all of them are aimed at improving the security...

The Emergence of Social Media The emergence of social media has revolutionized the world in many ways. Social media networks such as Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, LinkedIn and YouTube among others have continued to attract more users in the recent years. The rise in popularity of social media started after the invention...

1) Describe what is being measured and the level of measurement for the following variables: P344pr, A093r, SexHRP, A094r, and G018r. Answer: The living costs and food survey (LCF) explore information on various households’ budgets in UK as reflected by data gathered from expenditure and cost of living....

The escalation of the fake news rhetoric did not capture the US suddenly following the winning of the 2016 poll by President Trump; instead, the issue has been around for millennia  (Allcott and Gentzkow 212). In fact, apparently, the government is not only faced with the decision to taming fake...