Publisher's Synopsis
This compilation of ideas and opinions from leading experts brought together by the British Computer Society (BCS) reviews the considerable upheaval in the European Informatics profession, outlining the role of the BCS in helping to create a cohesive body which will provide informatics assistance to Eastern Europeans, influence Euorpean decision-formers and makers, and make informatics the European career of the 1990s.;The book includes an overview of the decision-making process, examining the application of decision support systems to the areas of command, control, communications and information C3I systems. Dealing room technology is examined and the way in which high speed, low cost, "off the shelf" technology, coupled with the flexibility offered by digital data, is leading to the integration of a specialist area into the overall scheme of corporate networking.;An examination of the spread of computer viruses and their potential economic and organizational impact is included. The book also contains information on computer-aided software engineering and parallel logic programming languages. Trends in information technology are considered with special emphasis on the future for IT specialists. The book culminates with a look ahead - what will the role of computers be in the future? How has computer science influenced science fiction - and vice versa - and how divorced are reality and fiction in the realms of computing?
