Computers and information systems / Jerome S. Burstein.

CONTENT

Part one introduction
1 Information systems and computers: Tools for business
Enter the computer
Case in point: The user takes charge
Wrap up: buying an airplane ticket

2 What makes information systems tick:from people to hardware
Determining information needs ?
Case in point:Full-function folksiness
Programming and problem solving
Carree box:The systems analyst
Wrap-up: Developing the new information system

3 Information systems in the work place; Computers in business
Sales with a difference
Carreer box :The office manager
Case in point:At J.C. Penney,its home sweet home
Wrap-up:The orders must go out

4 The evolution of data processing and information systems: A bit of history
From two hours to one- third of a second
Career box:Training and education specialist
Case in point:IBM's winning ingredient
Wrap-up:The march of the generations

Part two: Hardware
5 The central processing unit:Smaller and quicker
The hardware surgeons
Myrtle and the logic gate
Career box: Tale of a technological gunslinger
Case in point:Online computer library center
Wrap up: Modular replacement

6 Input and output devices:Faster and friendlier
One Saturday's input and output
Career box: Director of information systems
Case in point: A quest for the ultimate computer
Wrap-up consentino's vegetable haven

7 Secondary storage:Disks,tapes and more
A Monday kind of report
Career box:Media librarian
Case in point:San Jose firm aims to help clients play it safe
Wrap up:Secondary storage at global electric

8 Teleprocessing:Linking the world
Connections great and small
Career box:Telecommunication manager
Case in point :Controlling the data
Computing power for sale
Wrap-up global go home

Part three; Software
9 Designing software:programs to provide solutions
Defining oakriver university's problem
Case in point:Building quality and productivity
Egoless programming
Career box:Overview of programming careers
Wrap-up,defining Oakriver university's solution

10 Structured programming:tools for programmers
Untangling the spaghetti
What's wrong with go to ?
Career box:Application programmer
Irreverent but helpful programming hints
Case in point:Outmoded code
Wrap-up:The honor roll flowchart and pseudocode

11 Programming languages;A comparison
Choosing appropriate languages
Caree box:Programming analyst
Case in point:Branches of the AI tree
Wrap -up: Oakriver university picks some languages

12 Software packages;Programs off the shelf
A canned festival of lights
Subversive word processors
Case in point: Spreadsheets can cost millions
Career box:Programmer enterpreneur
Wrap-up :The need to evaluate prewritten software

13 System software:The master programs
The great operating system caper
Caree box:System programmer
Case in point:Setting system standards
Wrap-up:Oakriver defines its operating system needs

Part four: Information systems
14 Information systems and computers:Management techniques
The unflapable IRM
Case in point:The nucleus of productivity
Career box: Information resource manager
Wrap-up;Upgrading a dss

15 The system development process:A structured approach
Chilled molasses
Caree box:Information-systems consultant
Case in point:Mercedes gets a grip on inventory control
Change over creates taxing delays
Wrap-up:The weak link in the chain

16 Databases:Managing data resources
The genie in the bottle
Case in point: American airlines' powerful database system
Career box:Database administrator
Databases for microcomputers
Wrap-up the employee database

17 System control:Data integrity,security and privacy
Suspicion
Case in point:The computer as accomplice and victim
Career box: Confessions of an EDP auditor
Selling your privacy for peanuts
Wrap-up;Suspicion confirmed

18 Self-analysis:Buying your own microcomputer
The unopened season
Career box:Microcomputer specialist
Case in point:in-house computer stores
Wrap-up:A fall of leisure

Part five : Social issues
19 Careers in information systems;Prospects and options
Starting a career
Case in point:Charting a path to the top
Wrap-up AU revoir to Paul's

20 Computers and the future:Impacts and issues
The cutting edge
The three rules of robotics
Case in point:Hackers-loving the machine for itself
Wrap-up :The pluses and the minuses

Includes index