Overview
Here's the Book to Explain the Power and Importance of Software to Your Management Team — And Your Family!Showing us how software affects virtually every area of our lives, from work to entertainment, this entertaining and educational book offers a tantalizing peek into the future:
- How our privacy can be invaded by hackers
- How our national security can be compromised by technoterrorists
- How small errors jeopardize our vital systems, like our telephone networks
- How teaching computers can revolutionize education
- How software can increase your professional and personal productivity
- How intelligent cars and software-based highways will make driving a hands-off experience
- . . . and much more!
S. RUSSELL HERRON was one of five founders of GeoQuest Systems, now a subsidiary of Raytheon Corp. He has worked as Research Supervisor at Exxon Production Research Co., and is currently President of Imagination Software, based in Houston.
ROGER S. PRESSMAN is an internationally known author and consultant and is President of R.S. Pressman & Associates, based in Orange, Connecticut.
Synopsis
Here's the Book to Explain the Power and Importance of Software to Your Management Team — And Your Family!
Showing us how software affects virtually every area of our lives, from work to entertainment, this entertaining and educational book offers a tantalizing peek into the future:
- How our privacy can be invaded by hackers
- How our national security can be compromised by technoterrorists
- How small errors jeopardize our vital systems, like our telephone networks
- How teaching computers can revolutionize education
- How software can increase your professional and personal productivity
- How intelligent cars and software-based highways will make driving a hands-off experience
- . . . and much more!
S. RUSSELL HERRON was one of five founders of GeoQuest Systems, now a subsidiary of Raytheon Corp. He has worked as Research Supervisor at Exxon Production Research Co., and is currently President of Imagination Software, based in Houston.
ROGER S. PRESSMAN is an internationally known author and consultant and is President of R.S. Pressman & Associates, based in Orange, Connecticut.
Booknews
the authors lament the distance software sophistication has fallen behind the machinery. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
Editorials
Booknews
the authors lament the distance software sophistication has fallen behind the machinery. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)Damian Rinaldi
[W]ell-written. . . . weaves a tapestry of examples that illustrate software's hidden and not-so-hidden roles in our everyday lives. . . . This is the kind of book that you should consider giving to your management team. . . . a good starting point for helping them come to grips with software's role in their own experiences.— Software Magazine