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Babilonia, Jose
University of Puerto Rico
Rio Piedras, Puerto Rico
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  Managing creativity in science and hi-tech
Kay R., Springer-Verlag New York, Inc., New York, NY, 1990.  Type: Book (9780387513751)

The material in this slim volume is directed at “graduate students, practicing scientists and engineers” who are considering career paths in management and at managers who need to solidify their performance. The peo...

Oct 1 1990  
  An evaluation tool for measuring authoring system performance
MacKnight C. (ed), Balagopalan S. Communications of the ACM 32(10): 1231-1236, 1989.  Type: Article

In the beginning of this paper the authors briefly present the system evaluation problem and give references to previous authoring evaluation systems. Some of the major faults they find with these other authoring evaluation systems are...

Jul 1 1990  
  EDP cost accounting
Quinlan T., John Wiley & Sons, Inc., New York, NY, 1989.  Type: Book (9789780471600893)

This volume is directed to both financial and technical people. An MBA program might be tempted to use it as the base text for a specialized course in the financial or MIS major. Both the academic and professional backgrounds of the au...

Apr 1 1990  
  Fourth generation business systems: vendor support environments and systems generation
Varsegi A., John Wiley & Sons, Inc., New York, NY, 1989.  Type: Book (9789780471615484)

“This book is written for . . . technicians, programmers, . . . project leaders . . . managers . .- . student[s] . . . .” It has the look and feel of flyers announcing a seminar that is useful for virtually everyon...

Feb 1 1990  
  The human side of factory automation
Majchrzak A., Jossey-Bass Inc., Publishers, San Francisco, CA, 1988.  Type: Book (9789781555420505)

This book was written for “professionals and managers in manufacturing industries . . . [and] scholars in departments of industrial engineering, psychology, sociology, or management.” So a computer professional or a...

Apr 1 1989  
  Business file processing
Bradley J., Mitchell Publ., Inc., Santa Cruz, CA, 1988.  Type: Book (9789780394392172)

The objective of this book is “to fill a need for a text devoted to teaching business data processing students the principles of file processing, using . . . COBOL . . . .” The text is intended for a second course o...

Oct 1 1988  
  Software engineering education: the educational needs of the software community
Fairley R., Gibbs N.  Software engineering education: the educational needs of the software community, Carnegie-Mellon Univ. Software Engineering Institute, Pittsburgh, PA, 1987.  Type: Whole Proceedings

What is software engineering? You will find many definitions here--about one definition in each of the 26 or so papers in this tome, with many of them overlapping. This collection of papers is a set of opinions, in the broades...

Aug 1 1988  
  Computer capacity planning: theory and practice
Lam S., Chan K., Academic Press Prof., Inc., San Diego, CA, 1987.  Type: Book (9789780124344303)

This monograph is divided into three main sections: an overview of the field of computer capacity planning, a presentation and comparison of the component and system modeling approaches, and an analysis of a questionnaire dealing with ...

Apr 1 1988  
  Plant management, the locus of decision making, and the information services department
Henry C. J., Palley M. Library Hi Tech News (33): 34-48, 1986.  Type: Article

The main conclusion of this statistical study of management opinion in manufacturing plants is that “plant managers . . . considered the information services department (ISD) to be the least critical for success (among) . . ....

Feb 1 1988  
  Managing computer projects
Price S., John Wiley & Sons, Inc., New York, NY, 1986.  Type: Book (9789780471911135)

This slim book (183 pages, including a two-page alphabetical index) was published, according to the author’s Preface, as “an aide-mémoire for my own consultancy and lecturing . . . as an aide-mémo...

Sep 1 1987  
 
 
 
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