Mgmt 274A Special Topics in Information Systems
Managerial Implications of Emerging Information Technologies
Spring, 1996

Emerging Information Technologies


This is an incomplete starter list. Select a technology from this list or any other (with instructors approval), and with the restriction that only one person per technology.

Application Areas

Computer Assisted Software Engineering
Client/server 
Computer Integrated Manufacturing:  CAD/CAM
Data mining and visualization
Decision Support Systems
E-commerce/E-cash
Electronic distribution of information
Environmental monitoring systems
Executive Information Systems
Expert systems
Global tracking systems
Groupware/computer support of collaborative work
Image processing
Interorganizational information systems 
Personal digital assistants/communication services

Core Technologies

Artificial intelligence/neural nets/fuzzy logic
Chips and processors:  Native signal processing, 
DBMS -- Relational, Object Oriented
Digital video 
Flat panel displays
Handwriting recognition systems
Internet/WWW
Mobile network technologies (LAN/MAN/WAN topologies)
Mobile office technologies
Multimedia
Network access consumer technologies
Network technologies:  ATM, fast Ethernet/VG100 
Open hyperdocument systems/hypertext  
Output technologies
Simulations
Speech synthesis and voice technologies
Storage technologies
Ubiquitious computers
Virtual reality
Voice recognition systems
Wireless networks/infrared communications/cellular devices

Last Updated April 3, 1996

jason.frand@anderson.ucla.edu