PART B: CONCEPTS

B1

Personal use of the internet

B2

The internet

B3

Data handling and information retrieval

B4

Commercial data processing (DP)

B5

Control and monitoring

B6

Modelling and simulation

B7

Networking

B8

Artificial or machine intelligence

B9

Computer personnel

B10

Professionalism and ethics

B11

Computer security, abuse and related law

B12

Systems software

This section contains terms that might be met by any computer user working with applications in any of the areas covered. The chapters in Part B are concerned with general issues involved with well-defined areas of computer use. Some contain terms that might have been placed in other parts but they were kept with other related terms for completeness; this is particularly ...

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