electronic data processing
Electronic data processing ( EDP ) refers to the electronic recording, processing, transport, output and reproduction of data. It takes place through the execution of processes described by software on hardware systems . The description of the processes can also be part of the hardware (see also firmware ).
In detail, IT includes:
- Data acquisition, in which physical values or events through which information is transported ( message ) are encoded into data. This is done using sensors such as keyboards, measuring systems, cameras, etc.
- The actual electronic processing of this data. It is carried out by processors by interpreting software produced for the desired processing. See algorithm .
- The output of the data on displays or media, which enables their interpretation by humans as a message, or on physical actuators . The transmission of data to a mass storage device or a connected data processing system is also part of the output.
Electronic data processing takes place through electronic data processing systems, which today not only include computers , but also controls, clocks , cell phones and electronic consumer products.
Web links
Wikibooks: EDP - learning and teaching materials
Wiktionary: EDV - explanations of meanings, word origins, synonyms, translations
- Sascha Kersken: Compendium of information technology. IT basics, programming, media design. Galileo Press, Bonn 2005, ISBN 3-89842-668-8 .
- Functional early punch card EDP in the museum
- From Hollerith to IBM - The History of Commercial Computing
- IBM punch card systems
- Heise-Newsticker : Heinz Nixdorf Museum Forum shows Hollerith machine
- Thomas Watson Jr .: From the tabulator to IBM's System / 360.
- Abbreviations from EDP, IT and technology
Individual evidence
- ↑ EDP, the. In: DUDEN. Bibliographisches Institut GmbH - Dudenverlag, accessed on December 19, 2019 .
- ↑ J. Steinhauser: What is EDP? Easily explained. In: Chip . CHIP Digital GmbH, June 29, 2015, accessed on December 20, 2019 : “What does EDV mean? Electronic data processing - EDV for short (in English also EDP for Electronic Data Processing) - is a very broad term that encompasses all aspects of working with data on computers. "