Category:Computer applications: Difference between revisions

Chis Farall and his colleague monitor flux systems in computers

Various practical applications of computing such as computer aided design and telecommunications community

Subcategories

• Computer aided analysis - any program that allows for comparing and contrasting different objects, events, or texts
• Computer aided engineering - or CAD, any computer process that aids engineer tasks, includes computer aided design and computer aided analysis
• Computer aided instruction - or CAI, the use of computers to aid teaching and to assist in developing academic skills
• Computer integrated manufacturing - or CIM, the manufacturing approach of using computers to aid in the entire production process
• Control engineering computing - the use of computers to assist in control engineering, such as in embedded systems in automobiles
• Knowledge management - or KM, the strategies used by an organization to identify, classify, and distribute information and experiences
• Medical information systems - computing systems used to save and make available medical information
• Military computing - the use of computers by the military to enhance effectiveness, communication and the chain of command
• Physics computing - the use of computing to assist in the study of physics and physics modeling
• Publishing - the process of the dissemination of information and of making it available to the general public
• Telecommunication computing - the use of computers to assist in telecommunication operation
• Virtual enterprises - or VE, a temporary alliance of persons that come together using computers to share skills in order to respond to business opportunities
• Virtual manufacturing - the use of computer models to simulate actual manufacturing systems and optimize them
• World Wide Web - or WWW, a system of interlinked hypertext documents accessed via the internet, first created by Tim Berners-Lee in 1990