Information technology

Information technology (IT) or information and communication technology (ICT) is the technology required for information processing. In particular the use of electronic computers to convert, store, process, transmit, and retrieve information.

The industry undergoes fads where a particular technology is hyped, ie. discussed excessively in industry circles.

Topics:

• Computer science
• World Wide Web
• Digital library
• Pattern recognition
• Data mining
• Data processing
• Metadata
• Database
• Technology assessment
• Cryptography
• Data networking
• ITIL
• and many more...