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Information Technology -- Develop and manage information systems that support a business or organization. "IT embodies the hardware, software, algorithms, databases, tactics, and man-machine interfaces used to create, capture, organize, modify, store, protect, access, and distribute information for ultimate use by people."
Depending on what your co. does, you may need to know/perform some of the following:
* Artificial Intelligence -- Develop computers that simulate human learning and reasoning ability.
* Computer Design and Engineering -- Design new computer circuits, microchips, and other electronic components.
* Computer Architecture -- Design new computer instruction sets, and combine electronic or optical components to provide powerful but cost-effective computing.
* Software Engineering -- Develop methods for the production of software systems on time, within budget, and with few or no defects.
* Computer Theory -- Investigate the fundamental theories of how computers solve problems, and apply the results to other areas of computer science.
* Operating Systems and Networks -- Develop the basic software computers use to supervise themselves or to communicate with other computers.
* Software Applications -- Apply computer science and technology to solving problems outside the computer field-in education or medicine, for example.
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