Other Applications

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Other Applications

• Decision Support Systems
• Expert Systems
• Web Design Tools
• Web Entertainment
• Video Games

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Decision Support Systems

• Designed to help someone reach a decision by
  summarizing or comparing internal or external
  sources
• include, query languages, spreadsheets,
  statistical packages

3
Expert Systems

• Simulates the human experts reasoning and
  decision-making process
• medical information systems
• Artificial Intelligence (AI) based systems

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Web Design Tools

• New Languages XML, Javascript
• New Technologies Flash, QuickTime
• Personal Web Pages

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Web entertainment

• Sports
• Games
• Music
• Television
• Movies
• Humor

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Computers in Sports

• Calculating statistics
• Making Reservations
• Helping in training athletes
• Baseball Hall of Fame has a computerized Database
  to keep statistical information of the famous
• Scheduling of Games

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Games

• Video Games (Interactive)
• Internet Games
• PS2, X-Box etc

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Video Games

• come a long way since Pong and PacMan old
• stick figures
• cartoon like drawings
• digitized characters
• photographs of scenes
• some games use lasers
• 3-D mice

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Internet Games

• Zarfs list of Interactive games on the Web
  http//www.leftfoot.com/games.html
• Web Dice - http//www.irony.com/webdice.html
• Excite Games - http//my.excite.com/games/online_g
  ames
• Riddlers Games - http//www.riddler.com/home.html
  
• Play by Mail or Email - http//www.pbm.com/lindah
  l/pbm.html

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Music

• Music Link Central - http//www.musician.com/mlc/
  page15.html
• Sony Music - http//www.music.sony.com/Music/Multi
  media/index.html
• Music Education online - http//www.geocities.com/
  Athens/2405/index.html
• Internet Music Shop - http//www.musicsales.co.uk/
  
• Rock Web - http//www.rockweb.com/

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Television

• NASA Television on CU-See me - http//btree.lerc.n
  asa.gov/NASA_TV/NASA_TV.html
• British Amatuer Television Club -
  http//www.batc.org.uk/contents.htm
• NBC TVs Home on the Web - http//www.nbc.com
• ABC .com - http//www.abctelevision.com/

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Movies

• Movies.com - http//www.movies.com/
• Movie Web Home Page http//movieweb.com/movie/mov
  ie.html
• Comedy Movies - http//www.qmced.ac.uk/cis/student
  s/im4hast/im4hast.htm
• All Movie Guide Home Page - http//allmovie.com/am
  g/movie_Root.html

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Humor

• Jokes - http//www.jokes.com/
• B/C Site - http//www.aw.com/bc/planet/
• Jokes Barn - http//www.pnx.com/chomp/jokes.html
• SMILE Jokes Library - http//www.ee.vt.edu/gunaw
  an/smile.html
• Magic Joke Collection - http//www.bdominia.com/jo
  kes/magicfun.html

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Other Useful Web Applications

• Cooking and Recipe Collection
• Gardening
• Automobile Purchase
• Health Fitness
• Diet information
• Major Food chains
• Car rental and Apartment Guides
• What else? Anything that you can possibly think
  of, might have a web site for it.