In a recent issue of Scientific American, Ivars Peterson summed up the importance of online information systems to today's scientific and technical community: ``To stay current in a field, whether in mathematics, astronomy, or electrical engineering, you must have access to a computer network. Colleagues can read a paper or report, whether in final or draft form, as soon as it's finished--sometimes even as it's being written. To an astonishing degree, computer networks have already supplanted the more traditional means of formally and informally exchanging scientific ideas and data.'' For the thousands of technical personnel who lack the necessary training or experience, this valuable guide explains step-by-step how to conduct successful online searches with a minimum investment of time, effort, and expense. Harley Bjelland describes the required computer hardware and software, the advantages and disadvantages of available database services, procedures for cost-effective searches, and techniques for evaluating and using information obtained through online systems. Real-world examples illustrate how to take full advantage of a wide variety of databases dedicated to computers, chemistry, physics, electronics, mathematics, and many other disciplines.

Using Online Scientific and Engineering Databases

Computers & Technology

Bjelland, Harley

Web Development & Design

Computing McGraw-Hill

<p>Bjelland provides reliable hardware and software recommendations for everyone from entry level users through professional designers and publishers. There are step-by-step instructions for achieving three different levels of desktop publishing sophistication. Bjelland describes the hardware readers need to produce quality documents with high-level desktop publishing software, and with PageMaker, Ventura Publisher, and QuarkXPress.</p>

Create Your Own Desktop Publishing System (Create Your Own Series)

Graphics & Design

Windcrest

Details how architects, engineers, drafters, technical illustrators, and other technical professionals can create their own tailor-made workstations, offering step-by-step instructions, checklists, photographs, questions to ask vendors, and more. Original. (Intermediate).

Configuring a Customized Engineering Workstation

<p>Virtual reality is probably the biggest breakthrough in computing since the invention of the microprocessor. By allowing us to explore artificial worlds generated entirely by computer, it's a technology full of startling possibilities for professionals in the fields of architecture, industry, engineering, medicine, science, and entertainment.</p>

Create Your Own Virtual Reality System/Book and Disk

Levy, Joseph R.

A hands-on reference guide to virtual reality focuses on affordable products and offers guidelines on hardware, software, head-mounted displays, sound devices, interactive games, and training groups, and includes a NASA demo disk. Original. (Intermediate).

Create Your Own Virtual Reality System

This book sifts through the mountain of free and low-cost software and distills it into a compendium of the top recommended programs. Each chapter is devoted to one specific type of software. Readers can use the author's convenient, step-by-step evaluation procedures to assess additional software on their own. Disk contains sample programs.

Free and Low-Cost Software for Scientists and Engineers/Book and Disk (Programming Tools for Scientists and Engineers Series)

Certification

Business Writing the Modular Way: How to Research, Organize & Compose Effective Memos, Letters, Articles, Reports, Proposals, Manuals, Specification

Business & Money

Skills

Amacom Books

Writing Better Technical Articles

Everything scientists, engineers and technicians need to know to get published. Harley Bjelland, an electrical engineer and senior technical writer, provides proven techniques for selecting a subject, writing queries, researching through on-line information systems, organizing material, using a word processor to good result, revising the manuscript and even using illustrations effectively. Harley Bjelland has worked as a technical writer for IBM, Motorola, American Electronics, TRW, Northrop and on the stealth bomber project.

Religion & Spirituality

Tab Books

Whatever their level of skill, DR DOS users can turn to this guide for valuable tips on how to customize their PC systems and simplify many of their most complex, time-consuming computer tasks using batch files. By following Dan Gookin's clear guidance and instruction, readers can exercise what they already know about DR DOS to create powerful batch files and desktop utilities. Following an introduction to fundamental batch file techniques - looping, variables, debugging, troubleshooting, etc - readers discover new ways to break free of the limitations of the DR DOS batch language, learning how to incorporate BASIC and DEBUG routines into their programmes. They also find out how to use macros and control languages to boost batch file productivity, and how to use batch files to manage their hard disks more efficiently. Much of the book is in the form of a batch file cookbook, providing complete code for programmes (provided on disk) that modify displays and work environments, set system parameters and variables, launch multiple applications, configure directories, and much more.

Outrageous Dr DOS Batch File Programming/Book and Disk

GOOKIN, DAN

Operating Systems

Reference

Words, Language & Grammar

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Using Online Scientific and Engineering Databases

Create Your Own Desktop Publishing System (Create Your Own Series)

Configuring a Customized Engineering Workstation

Create Your Own Virtual Reality System/Book and Disk

Create Your Own Virtual Reality System

Free and Low-Cost Software for Scientists and Engineers/Book and Disk (Programming Tools for Scientists and Engineers Series)

Business Writing the Modular Way: How to Research, Organize & Compose Effective Memos, Letters, Articles, Reports, Proposals, Manuals, Specification

Writing Better Technical Articles

Outrageous Dr DOS Batch File Programming/Book and Disk

Writing Better Technical Articles