Flynn R.R. (Ed.) Computer Sciences. Volume 3. Social Applications

New York: Macmillan Reference USA, 2002. — 279 p. — (Macmillan Science Library). — ISBN10: 0-02-865569-9. — ISBN13: 978-0-0286-5569-9.In Volume 3, the emphasis is on social applications. From fashion design to meteorology, the use of computers impacts our everyday lives. For example, computer technology has greatly influenced the study of biology, molecular biology, physics, and mathematics, not to mention the large role it plays in air traffic management and aircraft flight control, ATM machines and magnetic stripe cards for shopping and business. Businesses, large and small, have significantly benefited from applications that track product growth, costs, and the way products are managed.Volume 3 essays also explore the computer’s role in medical image analysis and legal systems, while our use of computers in everyday life and our means of interacting with them are addressed in subjects such as library applications and speech recognition.Volume 3 addresses our aesthetic and intellectual pursuits in areas such as composing music, playing chess, and designing buildings. Yet the advancements of computer sciences go much further as described in articles about agriculture, geographic information systems, and astronomy. Among the people featured in the volume are American inventor Al Gross (1918–2001), the “father of wireless”; Hungarian mathematician Rózsa Péter (1905–1977), promoter of the study of recursive functions; and American author Isaac Asimov (1920–1992), famed science fiction writer who wrote extensively about robots.A
Accounting Software
Agriculture
Aircraft Flight Control
Aircraft Traffic Management
Airline Reservations
Architecture
Asimov, Isaac
Astronomy
ATM Machines
B
Biology
C
CAD/CAM, CA Engineering
Cell Phones
Chess Playing
Chip Manufacturing
Computer Assisted Instruction
Computer Professional
Computer Supported Cooperative
Work (CSCW)
Computerized Manufacturing
Cormack, Allan, and Hounsfield, Godfrey Newbold
Cray, Seymour
D
Data Processing
Data Visualization
Database Management Software
Decision Support Systems
Desktop Publishing
Distance Learning
E
Economic Modeling
Educational Software
Embedded Technology (Ubiquitous Computing)
Expert Systems
F
Fashion Design
Film and Video Editing
G
Geographic Information Systems
Gross, Alfred J
H
Hacking
Hewlett, William
Home System Software
I
Image Analysis: Medicine
Integrated Software
K
Kemeny, John G
Knowledge-Based Systems
L
Laser Technology
Legal Systems
Library Applications
M
Magnetic Stripe Cards
Mathematics
Medical Systems
Molecular Biology
Music Composition
N
Navigation
Neural Networks
O
Open Source
Organick, Elliot
P
Péter, Rózsa
Physics
Process Control
Productivity Software
Project Management
R
Railroad Applications
S
Scientific Visualization
Security Applications
Software Piracy
Space Travel and Exploration
Speech Recognition
Spreadsheets
SQL: Databases
T
Technology of Desktop
Publishing
Telephony
U
User Interfaces
W
Wang, An
Weather Forecasting
Word Processors
Photo and Illustration
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