Cutting Edge Technologies And Microcomputer Applications For Developing Countries / Edition 1

by Tien-tung Hsueh

Overview

This report is based on a conference on the applications of microcomputers in development sponsored by the U.S. Agency for International Development and the U.S. National Academy of Sciences in collaboration with a host country.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780367162535
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	10/31/2022
Pages:	504
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)

Table of Contents

Panel on Microcomputers for Developing Countries — National Research Council Staff — Introduction — Introduction — Overview — Overview — Conclusions and Recommendations — Conclusions and Recommendations — The Technologies — Advanced Computer Concepts — The Impact of Memory Technology Advances on Microcomputers — Artificial Intelligence: An Overview — Prolog for Artificial Intelligence Projects: The Portuguese Experience — Computer-Aided Design: A Primer — Applied Expert Systems — Computer Vision — A Multiple Microprocessor Architecture for Real-Time Visual Inspection — Resource Assessment — An Integrated Microcomputer Processing System for Census and Survey Data — The Microcomputer in the Brazilian Health Information System — Population Program Applications of Expert Systems — A Growing-with-the-User Expert System for Clinical Use — Disease Control in the Community: Toward Microcomputer-Supported Decision Models for Health Centers — SIGUS: A Microcomputer-Based Management System for Primary Health Care Centers — Computer Technology and Biomedical Instrumentation — A Distributed Processing Architecture for Real-Time Biological Data Analysis — Natural Resource Analysis, Assessment, and Management — Geographic Information Systems — Super Microcomputer Networks for a National Geographic Information System — Microcomputers in Agricultural Development — Resource Utilization — Expert Systems For Design and Manufacture — Microcomputers for Industrial Automation in Small- and Medium-Sized Industries in Brazil — A Microprocessor-Based Sequence Controller — The Field Limitations of Diagnostics in Processor-Controlled Industrial Systems — Computer-Aided Power System Design — Applications of Microcomputers in Water Resources Engineering — Intelligent Programs for Public Investments in Community Water Supply and Sanitation Systems — Applications of Artificial Intelligence in Civil Engineering — An Expert System for Time-Series Statistical Analysis — Communication — Intelligent Interface — English to Thai Machine Translation — The Need For Standards in Computer Graphics — Network-Based Information Systems: A Role for Intelligent Workstations — Application-Driven Networks — The Use of Microcomputers to Improve Telephone Service — Loop Signaling for PCM Equipment — Design and Manufacture of Modern Telecommunication Equipment in Portugal — The Use of Expert Systems in Educational Software