Emerging Trends in Computer and Information Technology

Computer Engineering

Today is the age of Information Technology. It has changed the lifestyle of the people. There is hardly any field of human life that is not affected by the Information Technology. Various Technological trends like Cloud Computing, Mobile Computing, Social media, Ubiquitous computing are growing very fast. Cloud computing enable us to share hardware and software resources as a service over the internet on the pay per use basis with any user over the globe. Mobile computing help us to access and process data on handheld mobile devices like smart phones, iPads etc. Social media like Facebook, twitter, Whatsapp, YouTube, LinkedIn help peoples to interact with each other around the world. Social media is also contributing to make this world a better place to live by raising issues of social importance. Internet of Things (IoT), a network of large amount of objects, computing devices embedded with microchips, sensors, actuators making this world a smart place to live. In this paper we will discuss about the various trends of information and communication technology like Cloud computing, Mobile computing, Social media and Internet of Things (IoT) that is evolving very rapidly and also discuss their role in professional and social life.

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