Seminar set 5 March 8 (pm)

    Data warehousing is just a bigger version of a database. He talked about the history and the uses of this technology. Though such technology is new to me it is still quite similar to the database and its query is the same. But data warehousing is actually a process not actually a product as said by the speaker. Its process composes of transforming other databases to one like a paper database and normal database. These two databases have different format or look when information is extracted so data warehousing transforms the 2 database into one readable and same look. In my opinion these data warehouse has a potential and actually it should be taught to students right now not only simple databases. Such companies like airlines specifically PAL uses this kind of technology. Which is not very surprising because of the massive data it needs to accommodate? In my career, this is by far the most important talk that I can appreciate because it is useful to my course and I would certainly try pursuing this kind of work in future.

    The sweep card was very informative in terms of presenting the product. The technology wise it was not pretty new but it is innovative in a ways as said by the speaker because there is a combination of features which has not been done in any kind of card and I agree definitely and I think that I would use this kind of card for my daily use. This will be a definite benefactor to everyday life and would make life much more secure and convenient to pay bills. It’s a technology that would really help a lot and I think it is the most relevant technology that an average person can use.

    The last speaker was talking about qr code, RFID to use for daily things like buying. It was quite similar to the previous speaker in terms of the technology used. Although after for a while again, he was already talking about the process that which no longer concerns any aspect of technology. What I did not like about this part is that he seemed to be bored about what he was talking about. Although some students were not listening one should still be able to talk. Although I think the newer trend is NFC and nor this anymore because it is a hassle to open an app and take picture of that code which is a drag at the same time, QR code are not that even useful as o believe because it’s something that is for gimmicks only.