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A guide for managers of small- and medium-sized businesses on planning and executing a company-wide strategy for dealing with the millennium bug problem. Provides a framework for a Y2K project with guidance...
Uses graphics based on the popular computer game ‘Lemmings’ to look at the key ideas of object technology - encapsulation of data and methods within the object; classes of object, polymorphism,...
An introduction to human-computer interaction and user-centred design. Uses as a case study the law firm Linklaters & Paines, which introduced ACCESS, a new information system for its users, lawyers and...
Considers the people involved in project management, in this case, the Portman Building Society’s Project OMNIA which was undertaken to replace diverse computer systems by a single integrated one that is...
Looks at engineering failures and asks if anything can be done to prevent or reduce them. The collapsed hotel walkways in the Hyatt Regency Hotel, Kansas City, Missouri, in July 1981; the failure of an...
Looks at some database developments: a commercial application of a natural language interface using SQL at the Van den Bergh headquarters in Burgess Hill; IBM Hursley talks about development in distributed...
Looks at an example of an expert system in use at the Pirelli tyre factory in Turin. The expert system takes the data from the factory management computer and examines the manufacturing trail of any tyres...
Looks at two types of computer system used by British Rail for modern signalling: one for indication and control, and one for interlocking.
Shows some of the computer systems which are used by the House of Fraser to manage the operation of their high-street stores and illustrates how modular design is used to help the construction and...
Computer integrated manufacture (CIM) is a major force in industrial organisation. IBM has built a facility in Warwick which it calls a CIM cell. It has the technology to demonstrate all the important...
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