This work sets out to explain the implications of networking technology for the business community. It presents current developments and also looks forward to the 21st century. It addresses the challenges associated with industrial computing, explains the role of the Internet in corporate communications, and predicts the expansion of mobile computing. Terminology and definitions developed at the University of California are introduced and made accessible.
Sprache
Verlagsort
Zielgruppe
Für höhere Schule und Studium
Für Beruf und Forschung
Illustrationen
20 b&w line illustrations
Maße
Höhe: 244 mm
Breite: 169 mm
ISBN-13
978-0-304-70028-8 (9780304700288)
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Schweitzer Klassifikation
The challenges of industrial computing - going beyond client-servers; network computers and the new workplace metaphor; network-orientated solutions, intranets and mobile computing; from client-servers to high-performance computers and beyond; desk area networks at MIT and videoconferencing; shared-nothing, shared-everything multimedia solutions and transaction handling; the first desk-area network to come on stream; ups and downs of the Japanese realworld computing project; scientific research and high-performance computing; high-performace computing in a banking environment.
