Exercises: Getting to know the fields and their activities

Match each tech-digital field with the activity that corresponds to it: artificial intelligence, the Internet of Things (IoT), cybersecurity, data science, robotics and computer engineering. Activities: protecting a company's systems against attacks; building models that learn from data; analyzing large volumes of data to make decisions; connecting sensors and everyday objects to the network; designing and programming machines that perform physical tasks; designing the computing systems and the software that makes them work.

Identify the main field in each case and justify your choice: a moisture sensor in a cornfield warns the producer's cell phone when it is time to water; a city analyzes data from public transport routes to improve the schedules; a bank detects cloned cards by comparing purchase patterns.

The diagram shows the fields that come together in an auto parts plant in Guanajuato adopting Industry 4.0. Identify which field the satellite marked with «?» belongs to —it stands for the thousands of machine sensors connected to the network— and explain how the other fields in the diagram combine in the plant and which job profiles that combination creates or transforms.

There are several routes into data science: a technological high school with a programming specialization followed by a technical degree, or a general high school and then a public university. Compare two possible routes from your own context (time, cost, math and programming requirements) and point out which supports or scholarships exist in your state for each one.