Introduction to Informatics

NGUYEN Duc Dung, Ph.D.

Institute of Information Technology, VAST
 Course Outline
• Credit points: 3 ECTS

• Time: 33h (18h lecture + 15h practice)

• Evaluation:
o 10% attendant
o 40% mid-term test
o 50% final examination

• Textbook: Greg Anderson, David Ferro, Robert Hilton.

Connecting to Computer Science. Thomson Course
Technology (2005)

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Textbook

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 Informatics: Course Plan
• History of Computing • Data Presentation and
and Computer File Structures
Architecture (no practice)
• Networks and the
• Operating System Internet

• Software Tools for • Introduction to

Techies Programming and
Software Engineering

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 Test Examples

• Midterm test

• Final examination

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Online Test

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Online Test

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Online Test

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About me
• Education:
– B.S. (1993) in Mathematics from Hanoi
Univ. of Education.
– M.S. (2003) and Ph.D. (2006) in
Knowledge Science from JAIST, Japan.
• Work experience
– ICT, USTH: 2020 –
– IOIT, VAST: 1994 –
– KDDI R&D Labs, Japan: 2007-2009
• Research interest
– Machine learning
– Pattern recognition
– Data mining

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Informatics

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 Automatic
Information Processing

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 By Computer and
Telecommunication
Systems

Automatic
Information Processing

- Store
- Retrieve, view
- Share/send
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 Homework 1

Informatics vs. Information Technology

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 Information (1)
• Facts provided or learned about
something or someone.

• What is conveyed or represented by a

particular arrangement or sequence of
things.
(From Oxford Dictionary)

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 Information (2)
• In information theory, information is taken as
an ordered sequence of symbols from an
alphabet, say an input alphabet X, and an
output alphabet Y.

• Information processing consists of an input-

output function that maps any input sequence
from X into an output sequence from Y.
(Stephen B. Wicker, Saejoon Kim (2003). Fundamentals of Codes, Graphs, and
Iterative Decoding. Springer. pp. 1 ff. ISBN 978-1-4020-7264-2)

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 Data

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Information

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Knowledge

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DIKW Pyramid

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Data: from Trillion Sensor World

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How Computer Processes Information

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Computerized/Digital Data

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WORD LENS: Tasks

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WORD LENS: Tasks
 Text detection

 Character recognition
PLAYA CERRADA
RECENTE ATAQUE DE TIBURON

 Language translation
BEACH CLOSED
RECENT ATTACK OF SHARK

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Why Pattern Recognition is Hard

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Why Pattern Recognition is Hard

(213,198,170,174,88,97,…

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Digital vs. Analog Data

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ADC: Analog to Digital Conversion

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Signal Digitization

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(Digital) Audio Data

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 By Computer and
Telecommunication
Systems

Automatic
Information Processing

- Store
- Retrieve, view
- Share/send
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How Computer Stores Information?

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How Computer Stores Information?

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How Computer Stores Information?

What is missing?
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SSD vs. HDD vs. SSHD

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 Random Access Memory Read-only memory
Allows the computer to ROM stores the program
read data quickly to run required to initially boot
applications. It allows the computer. It only
reading and writing. allows reading.
Its contents are lost when Its contents are retained
the device is powered off. even when the device is
powered off.
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 Storage
Related Comparisons:

• HDD vs SSD

• SRAM vs DRAM

• DDR2 vs DDR3

• IDE vs SATA

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How Computer Processes Information

https://www.codeproject.com/Articles/237465/Understanding-Logic-Gates
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Computer Architecture

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Computer Evolution

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Number of Computer Sales

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Calculating Tool: Abacus

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Mechanical Computer

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 Informatics: Course Content
• History of Computing • Data Presentation and
and Computer File Structures
Architecture (no practice)
• Networks and the
• Operating System Internet

• Software Tools for • Introduction to

Techies Programming and
Software Engineering

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