Interactive Computer Systems: Videotex and Multimedia

✍ Scribed by Antone F. Alber (auth.)

• Publisher: Springer US
• Year: 1993
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 440
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Focusing on the business aspects of interactive systems, this book pays particular attention to applications involving videotex and multimedia. The author describes the technology of these systems, presents case studies detailing their applications, and offers a methodology for planning and producing such systems. Managers, planners, and academics who wish to apply information technology for operational and strategic ends will find no other book more practical, readable, or comprehensive.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xviii
The Business Scene....Pages 1-20
Enhanced Systems....Pages 21-43
Computer Options....Pages 45-82
The Workbench....Pages 83-121
Connectivity....Pages 123-143
Communications Services....Pages 145-178
The Path to Applications....Pages 179-199
Software....Pages 201-223
Laying the Groundwork....Pages 225-243
Planning and Producing the Infobase: Part I....Pages 245-281
Planning and Producing the Infobase: Part 2....Pages 283-304
Survey of Enhanced Information Systems....Pages 305-332
Cases: Implementing Operational Systems....Pages 333-343
Cases: Implementing Strategic Systems....Pages 345-378
Cases: Public Access Terminals....Pages 379-401
Back Matter....Pages 403-435

✦ Subjects

Computer Science, general