Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 51 Document Number: C00567
Notes:
AgCom 300 paper submitted to Dr. James Evans, UIUC., Mimeographed, 1985. 22 p. (Class paper for AgCom 300, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Agriculture Communications, Professor James Evans)
AgComm Teaching, The responsibility for a successful computer system belongs to the management, and managers need enough knowledge to choose the best system. Long-range perspective is important so the computer can expand with the operation. Important words are explained in the categories of software, hardware, and methods of getting computer power. Software is the series of instructions telling a computer what to do. An individual set of instructions is called a program. There are systems software and applications software. Applications software can be custom software, packaged, or modified. The hardware is the machinery that runs the software. The central processing unit (CPU) is the brains of the computer. Results of computer programs are stored on plastic disks. Permanent copies can be made by using a printer. A farmer can get computer power with an outside service or an in-house service.
Chiang, Katherine S. (author), Curtis, Howard (author), Demas, Samuel (author), Ochs, Mary A. (author), and Albert R. Mann Library, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY; Albert R. Mann Library, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY; Albert R. Mann Library, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY; Albert R. Mann Library, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
Format:
Journal article
Language:
English with French / Spanish summary
Publication Date:
1985
Published:
International: Wageningen, Netherlands : The Association.
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 84 Document Number: C05224
Elkana, Yoseph (author) and Ministry of Agriculture Extension Service Tel-Aviv, Israel and US Department of Agriculture Extension Service Washington, DC
Format:
Proceedings
Publication Date:
1985-05-27
Published:
International
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 127 Document Number: C18888
Fedale, Scott V. (author / Associate Agricultural Editor - TV/Video/AV, Agricultural Communications Center, University of Idaho, Moscow, ID)
Format:
Conference paper
Publication Date:
1985
Published:
USA
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 86 Document Number: C05735
Notes:
Paper presented at the 1985 Summer Meeting of the American Society of Agricultural Engineers; 1985 June 23 - 26; Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI; AGRICOLA IND 86026420, St. Joseph, MI : The American Society of Agricultural Engineers, 1985. 11 p. (American Society of Agricultural Engineers Microfiche Collection. Paper no. 85-5015), A new information delivery system, interactive video, has the potential to radically change the structure of traditional Cooperative Extension Service information delivery. This system offers user control of information presentation, access to more information in less time, reduced storage space and a multi-media information delivery capability
Gaultney, Larry D. (author / Assistant Professor, Department of Agricultural Engineering, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN)
Format:
Conference paper
Publication Date:
1985
Published:
USA
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 87 Document Number: C05759
Notes:
Paper presented at the 1985 Summer meeting of the American Society of Agricultural Engineers; 1985 June 23-26; Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, St. Joseph, MI : American Society of Agricultural Engineers, 1985. 11 p. (Microfiche No. 85-5033), The area of expert systems, a branch of artificial intelligence, is one of the latest computer-based problem solving techniques which is gaining acceptance in agricultural decision-making. Problems which were here-to-fore unsolvable by formal, structured, algorithmic computer programs can be solved using the heuristic and symbolic knowledge incorporated in an expert system. A good expert system can make decisions or give advice equivalent to those of a human expert in a specific area of expertise.
Information technology (computers, communication, etc.) has become an indispensable part of modern life. As such, it is being transferred to the developing world from industrialized countries. However, real technology transfer rarely takes place in such transactions. What the Third World ends up with are prepackaged end products, for which it typically pays a great deal of money. As long as the industrialized countries hesitate to share their research and manufacturing methods, the developing nations will be at their mercy in this vital area. The Third World, in turn, should not expect a "free ride" in this connection, but should develop an information technology of its own.
