Computers as our better partners : proceedings of the IISF/ACM Japan international symposium, Tokyo, 7-9 March 1994 /

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Corporate Authors: World Scientific (Firm); IISF/ACM International Symposium on Computers as Our Better Partners Tokyo, Japan)
Group Author: Yamada, Hisao, 1930-2008. (Editor); Kambayashi, Y. (Editor); O ta, Shigeru, 1942- (Editor)
Published: World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte Ltd.,
Publisher Address: Singapore :
Publication Dates: 1994.
Literature type: eBook
Language: English
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Online Access: http://www.worldscientific.com/worldscibooks/10.1142/2319#t=toc
Item Description: "IISF/ACM International Symposium on Computers as Our Better Partners"--P. vii.
Carrier Form: 1 online resource (358 pages) : illustrations
Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN: 9789814534529
Index Number: HV1569
CLC: C913.69-532
Contents: Part I : Information Systems and People with Disabilities: Key Note 1 : Building Disability Access Directly into Next-Generation Information and Transaction Systems -- Key Note 2 : Computers as Better Partners for Everyone -- Key Note 3 : Alternatives for Constructing Computing Systems -- Support System for the Handicapped Through Information Technologies -- Part II : Computers to Help People with Disabilities: Computer Use by People with Disabilities: TRON Enableware: Empowering Disabled People on the BTRON Environment -- UnWindows: Bringing Multimedia Computing to Users with Disabilities -- Use of Electronic Networks to Help People with Disabilities -- Human Interface Technology Friendly to the Handicapped -- The Vision Impaired and Computers: Computers and the Visually Impaired -- Research on Computer Aids for the Visually Disabled -- Digital Technologies and Blind People: Achievements, Trends and Opportunities -- Creating an Industry : Access Technology for the Vision Impaired -- Technical Aides: Current Situation of Communication Aids for The People with Disabilities in Japan -- Real Time Display of Spoken Japanese for the Hearing Impaired --Generation and Recognition of Sign Language Using Graphic Models -- Aspects in the Technology Transfer in the Rehabilitation Technology Market -- Development of Information Systems for People with Disabilities: Answering the Challenge to Develop Accessible Information Systems for the Disabled -- The Elderly and Information Technology -- CAPD Research Opportunities in the 1990's and Beyond -- Activities of Humanity Electronics Committee at Japan Electronic Industry Development Association -- Rehabilitation Projects and Technology Transfer Activities of the Rehabilitation Research and Development Center -- Development in Japanese Companies: Braille Information Network : Braille Forum -- An Intelligent Automatic Translation System from a Printed Document in Japanese into Braille -- Prototype Sign Language Translation System -- Canon's Activity on Computer Devices for the Disabled -- The Development of The Information Systems for The Physically Handicapped and The Elderly -- Part III : Major Related Computer Science Topics: Special Lecture: A Dream for the Information Society of the 21st Century -- International Science Cooperation and the Innovative Impact of Computers Graphics: 3D User Interfaces and 3D Widgets -- Image Processing in Office -- Visualization of Information using Digital Computers Databases: Self- Organizing Information Base Systems Project -- Next-Generation Database Systems: Objects and Beyond -- Supporting Organizational Activities: Status and Prospects -- Emerging Semantic-Based Interoperable Information System Technology -- Assigning an Appropriate Meaning to Database Logic with Negation -- Software: Prospects for a Viable Software Industry -- Do Objects Matter? -- BaLinda Lisp: Realization of a Pragmatic Parallel Programming Model -- Toward Intelligent Human-Computer Dialogue -- Intelligent Processing: Reorganizing Computer Technologies for the Future -- Parallel Execution of Mechanical Theorem Proving Procedures -- Study on Support Environment for Reading, Writing, and Hearing in English -- Advanced Applications and Algorithms: Machine Translation for International Information Exchange -- New Robot (not Neurobot) Applications -- Schedulers for Pinwheel Problems -- Knowledge Compression - Logic Minimization for Expert Systems -- Network and Distributed Computing: Networked Multimedia for the Information Society -- The Evolution of Computer Communications and Networks -- Program Structure in Distributed Systems -- High-Performance Distributed Computing Environments.