Information technology (IT) is the acquisition, processing, storage and dissemination of vocal, pictorial, textual and numerical information by a microelectronics-based combination of computing and telecommunications. The term in its modern sense first appeared in a 1958 article published in the ''Harvard Business Review'', in which authors Leavitt and Whisler commented that "the new technology does not yet have a single established name. We shall call it information technology (IT).". Some of the modern and emerging fields of Information technology are next generation web technologies, bioinformatics, cloud computing, global information systems, large scale knowledgebases, etc.

General information

IT is the area of managing technology and spans wide variety of areas that include but are not limited to things such as processes, computer software, information systems, computer hardware, programming languages, and data constructs. In short, anything that renders data, information or perceived knowledge in any visual format whatsoever, via any multimedia distribution mechanism, is considered part of the IT domain. IT provides businesses with four sets of core services to help execute the business strategy: business process automation, providing information, connecting with customers, and productivity tools.

IT professionals perform a variety of functions (IT Disciplines/Competencies) that ranges from installing applications to designing complex computer networks and information databases. A few of the duties that IT professionals perform may include data management, networking, engineering computer hardware, database and software design, as well as management and administration of entire systems. Information technology is starting to spread further than the conventional personal computer and network technologies, and more into integrations of other technologies such as the use of cell phones, televisions, automobiles, and more, which is increasing the demand for such jobs.

In the recent past, the Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology and the Association for Computing Machinery have collaborated to form accreditation and curriculum standards for degrees in Information Technology as a distinct field of study as compared to Computer Science and Information Systems today. SIGITE (Special Interest Group for IT Education) is the ACM working group for defining these standards. The Worldwide IT services revenue totaled $763 billion in 2009.

See also

Information and communications technology (ICT)

Computer science

References

Further reading

Adelman, C. (2000). ''A Parallel Post-secondary Universe: The Certification System in Information Technology''. Washington, D.C.: U.S. Department of Education.

Allen, T., and M.S. Morton, eds. 1994. ''Information Technology and the Corporation of the 1990s''. New York: Oxford University Press.

Shelly, Gary, Cashman, Thomas, Vermaat, Misty, and Walker, Tim. (1999). ''Discovering Computers 2000: Concepts for a Connected World''. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Course Technology.

Webster, Frank, and Robins, Kevin. (1986). ''Information Technology—A Luddite Analysis''. Norwood, NJ: Ablex.

External links

The Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL)

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name	David Choi
background	solo_singer
birth name	David Yong Choi
birth date	March 22, 1986
birth place	Anaheim, California United States
origin	Garden Grove, California, United States
instrument	Vocals, guitar, banjo, piano, violin, ukulele, mandolin
genre	Rock, pop rock, alternative, soul
occupation	Singer-songwriter, musician
years active	2000–present
associated acts	Wong Fu Productions Kina Grannis Ryan Higa Kevin Wu Chester See JR Aquino
label	Warner Chappell Music (left) Unsigned (present)
website	David Choi Official Site }}

David Yong Choi (최데이비드용) (born March 22, 1986) is a Korean American musician and YouTube video producer living in Los Angeles. He performs a mix of original songs and covers of pop hits. Choi released his first album, ''Only You'', in October 2008. His second album, entitled ''By My Side'', was released on May 18, 2010. He is a native Los Angeles singer/songwriter/producer whose songs and tracks have been heard on NBC, FOX, VH1, MTV, A&E;, E!, Travel Channel, Style, PBS, Food Network, Disney, as well as in national commercials overseas. He has worked with companies such as Kelloggs, Starburst, American Cancer Society, GE, YesStyle, Samsung, and JC Penney. On YouTube, he has over 814,955 subscribers and over 92,143,522 total video views. Choi has also worked as a songwriter and producer at Warner/Chappell Music, which signed him on after his participation in an American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP) workshop. He has done promotion for Starburst candy and J. C. Penney clothes. On February 21, 2009, he performed at the annual Kollaboration talent show.

As of June 2011, Choi is the 6th most subscribed musician on YouTube, 38th most subscribed in the partners category and 50th most subscribed of all time, with over 814,000 subscribers and more than 12 million channel views. Choi's videos have been viewed a total of over 91 million times. His humorous song ''"YouTube, A Love Song"'' has received over 2.6 million views. The music videos for his singles ''Won't Even Start'' and ''That Girl'', which are posted on both his and producers Wong Fu Productions' YouTube channels, has received a total of over 5 million views. He also posts non-music videos such as vlogs on his second channel. Choi often appears in online videos with fellow YouTube personalities, mostly playing a humorous character with a very straight face (his prominent trait). Some YouTube personalities, like Shane Dawson and Wong Fu Productions, often use Choi's music in their videos.

Early life and career

Birth & Early Life

David Choi was born in Anaheim, California on the 22nd of March in 1986. He is of Korean descent, and also comes from a musical family, his parents owning a music store named "Grace Store" and his father a musician like David when young.

Exposure To Music

At a young age, David had to play two instruments from these given choices: the piano, violin, cello, or flute. His parents soon forced his hand and his two "choices" were the piano and the violin. When young (in elementary school), David enjoyed playing with his action figures, but because of the private lessons on playing the piano and violin he soon had less time for them. Soon after he had learnt the basics of those instruments, he realised he still had to practice on them, which resulted in having even lesser time for his action figures. This was what made him detest music for quite a while before realising playing these instruments meant he had to attend orchestra classes, and that allowed him to miss school classes. This was the only thing he liked about music. He never heard a pop song until he was in 6th grade, with the song being Smash Mouth's All Star. After that, he started listening to radios for more songs of other genres, aside from what he was made to listen to - jazz and classical. Soon he came across the song All the Small Things by Blink 182 and attempted to play it with the guitar. He succeeded, but he was still unimpressed with the instruments, having grown up in a music-filled family and a music store (the one his parents owned, entitled "Grace Store"). He still did not like music. He led his orchestra as concertmaster, and, though he goofed, got an easy "A" for that subject. Orchestra soon became his favourite subject.

High School

David enjoyed playing video games too, and this was another reason why he hated practicing on music (he had less time for the games). Soon, he gave up on violin and quit his lessons, despite as a child telling his parents about his ambition to become a violinist. In 9th Grade, David Choi started taking Jazz piano lessons, and he enjoyed it, pretty much due to the fact that it did not require him to follow strict rules. Music soon sort of grew on him, and he liked it. He started to have an ambition to compose and write music and songs, after a classmate named Pablo played electronic music in his teacher Mr. Roy's CD player, and said, “Yeah, I made this music.” David started out making original melodies in his head, and there, it began his magical U-turn. From hating music, to loving music a bit, to finally stepping into the early stages of songwriting. He entered a contest and submitted an instrumental pop song, and won his first award.

Start Of His Career (2002-2006)

He started to compose his music digitally at first, with a program called Acid Pro. He learnt how to use it himself a few days after downloading it. He learnt a few songwriting tips from a friend named Judy.

In 2004, Choi won the grand prize in David Bowie’s ''Mashup'' contest. Appearing in ''USA Weekend Magazine'' with Usher, he received the grand prize for the magazine's John Lennon Songwriting Contest for teens. This marked the start of a musical career, at first as a staff songwriter/producer, when Warner Chappell Music signed him. In 2006, his humourous love song to video-sharing website YouTube entitled Youtube (A Love Song), which was uploaded on 30 December that year, brought him to "overnight" fame. Since then he has been composing humorous songs, like "It's Rad To Pick Your Nose" and "I Think I Like You". "My Company" was also a half-humorous and half-love song. The YouTube love song, to his surprise, was posted on the homepage of the website. He stated in a blog post that his friend said, "you're on the homepage". He soon received requests for new songs, a live performance and an album. He did want to release his songs in an album, but as he was a ''signed'' songwriter/producer at that time, he had to go through a lot of legal procedures and accept a lot of conditions that was stated in his contract. Thus, he left Warner, and stayed unsigned so he could carry on with his album release.

Only You (2007-2008)

David Choi released his first album in 2008 and it was entitled Only You. It contained mostly love songs, notably Love, Won't Even Start, Something To Believe and Only You. In 2009, David released a Korea Special edition of the album, containing three bonus tracks. Won't Even Start became his hit single, and he released a music video on it, collaborating with Wong Fu Productions in producing his first official music video. The album also bonded him with Korean fans, releasing a special Korean edition with three bonus tracks.

By My Side (album) & That Girl (2009-2010)

Within a space of half a year (4th Quarter 2009 to 1st Quarter 2010), David compiled composed songs into his sophomore album, which was released in 2010 on May 18, By My Side. He released a music video on the lead single "That Girl" that same date. The music video was produced by David Choi and his friends from production company Wong Fu Productions. He collaborated with them for the second time, the first being the music video on "Won't Even Start", and Julia Chang acted as 'that girl' alongside him. He also released a Korean edition, with two bonus tracks: Valentines and My Company.

Forever and Ever (2011-Present)

During his tours in 2011, David Choi sang two songs he wrote during 2010, "You Were My Friend" and "This And That". He has blurted that a third album will include these two songs. On Facebook, he announced that the new album will be titled "Forever and Ever" and is scheduled to be released in October 2011. On July 7, 2011, David released his thrid music video, for his single "By My Side", once again a collaboration with Wong Fu Productions. This music video features Jenny Ong. David also started to help his father, Ray Choi, in uploading YouTube videos of Ray playing the autoharp. His song "I Choose Happiness", the instrumental version always used in KevJumba and Wong Fu Productions videos, was also chosen to be used in the upcoming 2011 film "Lucky".

Tours

Choi embarked on his first tour from November 12 to November 19, 2009. He sang live in the United States West Coast cities of San Diego, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Portland, and Seattle, as well as in Vancouver, Canada. In 2010 Choi embarked on his second tour singing live in the United States East Coast cities of Washington DC, New York, Boston, and Chicago as well as Toronto, Canada. The year after (2010) he visited the few cities again.

In August 2010, David Choi went to Singapore for vacation and tour. He was there for eleven days, one day being his vacation day where he went to Sentosa and Night Safari. In 2011, Choi went on a short tour around North America again, entitled "Spring Tour", this time including Houston, Chicago, and Hawaii. He also frequents Korea.

In the summer vacation of 2011, David announced another tour - this time his first continental tour (as he went around Southeast Asia), his Asia-Pacific Tour. He went to Hong Kong, Indonesia, Philippines, Singapore, Malaysia and Australia. In Australia, David was supported by Australian acts Amelia Jae and Jayesslee. Again, David went to small venues, like the Esplanade Recital Studio, which holds about 245 people.

Accompanying with tours, David also has meet-and-greet sessions, where he meets his fans.

Style

Genre and Lyrics

David Choi's music genre falls mostly under the modern "ballad" genre, with his songs being slow, and mostly about love, relationships, and break-ups. His songs have been described as "often to melt girls' hearts" and they really seem like oldies, in contrast with modern love songs like Dynamite, which often involve partying and rapping, or Bruno Mars songs, which don't really describe relationships. This is probably because David grew up listening to classical and jazz music. His songs are like sources of motivation, for example "Valentines", which encourage singles to wait.

Portrait

For quite a while David was portrayed by netizens and fans as a sad and solemn guy with a poker face, having not smiled for 2 years (2006–2008), promising he will smile until he gets 77,777 subscribers, a goal he accomplished. The tune and melody he uses in his songs are often happy melodies, for example "Something To Believe" and "My Time With You".

Discography

Only You (2008 - CD (digipak) and iTunes)

Only You (Korea Special Edition) (2009 - CD; only for Korea +3 bonus tracks)

By My Side (2010 - CD (digipak) and iTunes)

YouTube Covers Volume 1 (2010 - iTunes exclusive)

YouTube Covers Volume 2 (2010 - iTunes exclusive)

By My Side (Korea Special Edition) (2011 [to be released] - CD; only for Korea +2 bonus tracks)

Forever and Ever (2011 [scheduled for release in October] - CD and iTunes)

In other media

Songs in other media

''Up In Da Club (Wong Fu Productions)'' ''Playful Kiss'' ''Secret Garden (TV series) ''Agents of Secret Stuff (HigaTV and Wong Fu Productions ''Strangers, again (Wong Fu Productions)'' ''My Princess (TV series) ''All My Love (Korean Drama) ''Samsung Zipel Grandstyle (Samsung)'' ''Renault SM5 (Samsung)'' ''Lucky (2011 film)

Year !! Used In (producers) !! Type !! Song
rowspan="1"	2008	''J.C. Penney''	Web Ad: "Back-to-School Interactive Initiative"
rowspan="1"	2009	|	4-Part Series	"Something To Believe
rowspan="1"	2010	|	Korean Drama	"Won't Even Start"
rowspan="1"	2010	Secret Garden'' ||	Korean Drama	"Love"
rowspan="1"	2010	Wong Fu)'' ||	Web Film	"My Time With You"(with Kina Grannis)
rowspan="1"	2011	|	Short Story	"So Weightless"
rowspan="1"	2011	My Princess'' ||	Korean Drama	"By My Side" "Won't Even Start"
rowspan="1"	2011	All My Love'' ||	Korean Drama	"Happily Ever After" "해피 몽땅"
rowspan="1"	2011	|	Fridge Advertisement	"By My Side"
rowspan="1"	2011	|	Car Advertisement	"Only You"
rowspan="1"	2011	Lucky'' ||	Movie	"I Choose Happiness"

Filmography and TV Appearances

''The Allergy'' ''BEST CREW - The Audition'' ''Interview with Channel News Asia'' (TV Appearance) ''Strangers, again'' ''THE ANNIVERSARY''

Year !! Title !! Producer !! Role
rowspan="1"	2010	''Funemployed'' (episodes 7,8,10 & 11)	Wong Fu Productions
rowspan="1"	2010	|	Wong Fu Productions	Chris' Girlfriend (after "smoke reaction")
rowspan="1"	2010	|	Nigahiga	Jeffery (the new member)
rowspan="1"	2010	|	Mediacorp	Himself
rowspan="1"	2011	|	Wong Fu Productions	Donatello (Don)
rowspan="1"	2011	|	David Choi Music	Himself

Awards and nominations

! Year	! Award	! Nominated Work	! Category	! Result
		"Big Shakin' Car" (Mashup of "Shake it" and "She'll Drive a Big Car")	N/A
John Lennon Songwriting Contest	Himself	Teens
Songwriter Universe Song of the Month	"Anything You Want"	February

See also

Notable YouTube users

References

External links

David Choi official website

Category:American musicians of Korean descent Category:Musicians from Los Angeles, California Category:American singer-songwriters Category:Living people Category:American male singers Category:American guitarists Category:American tenors Category:1986 births Category:People from Garden Grove, California

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