TL;DR: A pilot scheme was set up to test two electronic mail systems plus videotex, and future schemes include setting up a central database to access personnel details and project management files.

TL;DR: The latest version of CD is CD-Interactive (CD-I), and Philips and Sony have jointly proposed a standard for this latest development which should be available by next year.

TL;DR: The Yorktown Expert System/MVS Manager is a continuous, real-time expert system that exerts active control over a computing system and provides advice to computer operators.

TL;DR: The development of computer software using formal methods is reviewed, some indication of future trends will be given, and how the ideas of software engineering can be applied today are reviewed.

TL;DR: With the increased sophistication of business activities, the classic tools of systems analysis are found to be unsuitable for identifying information needs of management.

TL;DR: A Programming Language has developed from being an enhanced mathematical and logical notation for a number of years to a much more analytical language, but its main weakness is its inablility to fit into any traditional mould without losing its strengths.

TL;DR: In a highly competitive manufacturing industry, a UK company has installed a flexible manufacturing system, based around an IBM Series/1 processor, attached to an IBM PC/AT as discussed by the authors.

TL;DR: There are weaknesses in the user interfaces of many current electronic mail systems available with Unix, so an improved user interface has been implemented which includes a full-screen VDU display.

TL;DR: The Systematics generator includes precoded design templates in its knowledge base and the two main approaches to problem statement are data-driven or goal-driven.

TL;DR: Most departments in an organisation use graphics to present data and one supplier suggests that the investment in such systems can be recouped within a few months.

TL;DR: A UK project has been set up as a first step to establishing a quality certification service for programming practices, and standards have to be defined, and a way found of enforcing those standards.

TL;DR: A number of trends are taking place including standardization, ergonomics and added functionality to improve not only the quality of output but ergonomic designs and office integration.

TL;DR: This work states that data, like people, money and materials, should be treated as a critical resource that any company has to manage and provides a substantial challenge for a company to provide accurate, relevant and timely information.

TL;DR: A UK company has addressed the problem of disc caching and claims to have radically improved access time, and there are two types, prefetch and replacement.

TL;DR: In evaluating any MAT or translator aid, the user needs to consider the overall process from speed to type of text to audience.

TL;DR: Three commonly used benchmark programs: the Whetsone, the Dhrystone, and the Sieve, were run on an IBM PC, an IBMPC/AT, a Vax 11/785 and a VX 8600 computer, showing large differences in performances predicted by the different benchmarks.

TL;DR: A rapidly growing number of commercial expert systems are becoming available, bringing expert systems within the reach of most businesses, but it can be difficult to sort out the useful from the inadequate.

TL;DR: Decision support systems (DSS) are in use in a major retail organization for a variety of purposes as mentioned in this paper, one is being used to monitor a change of strategy within the retail outlets.

TL;DR: As the manufacturing industry continues to invest in new technologies it is beginning seriously to consider working towards the implementation of the concept of computer integrated manufacturing (CIM).

TL;DR: The forms facility provides an editor for designing forms and a reporting facility to display information about a form and provides a set of functions which, when linked to an application program, display the forms and accept data supplied by the user at run time.

TL;DR: The shortage of skilled programming staff is not helped by the attitudes of many employers, who refuse to consider training staff to meet their needs as discussed by the authors, who also fail to realise that the market currently belongs to the sellers, and jobs must therefore be made attractive to candidates.