The last thirty years has seen a massive shift in the use of computers, from just solving scientific and engineering problems and keeping massive databases of records for large organisations, to their use by a large proportion of the population in virtually every area of modern life.
The major theme of the course M150 is the transformation of data – what we can see and sense all around us – into information. The computer helps us to collect data, through the medium of text or by digitising pictures or sound, then to store it conveniently and transform it into information, and through the medium of the internet, to communicate that information as we wish.