Application of Computers
Application of Computers
Computers have proliferated into various areas of our lives. For a user, computer is a tool that provides the
desired information, whenever needed. You may use computer to get information about the reservation of tickets
(railways, airplanes and cinema halls), books in a library, medical history of a person, a place in a map, or the
dictionary meaning of a word. The information may be presented to you in the form of text, images, video clips, etc.
Education. Computers are extensively used, as a tool and as an aid, for imparting education.
Educators use computers to prepare notes and presentations of their
lectures. Computers are used to develop computer-based training
packages, to provide distance education using the e-learning software,
and to conduct online examinations. Researchers use computers to get
easy access to conference and journal details and to get global access
to the research material.
Medicine. Medical researchers and practitioners use computers to access information about the
advances in medical research or to take opinion of doctors globally. The medical history of
patients is stored in the computers. Computers are also an integral part of various kinds of
sophisticated medical equipments like ultrasound
machine, CAT scan machine, MRI scan machine, etc.
Computers also provide assistance to the medical
surgeons during critical surgery operations like
laparoscopic operations, etc.
The list of applications of computers is so long that it is not possible to discuss all of them here. In addition to
the applications of the computers discussed above, computers have also proliferated into areas like banks,
investments, stock trading, accounting, ticket reservation, military operations, meteorological predictions, social
networking, business organizations, police department, video conferencing, telepresence, book publishing, web
newspapers, and information sharing.