My Years in the Information Technology Trenches, From Data Processing to Information Technology | The Reminisces of a CRUDmudgeon

Ph D Bruce Johnson

ISBN 10: 1412099846 / ISBN 13: 9781412099844

Published by Trafford Publishing, 2015

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My Years in the Information Technology Trenches, From Data Processing to Information Technology | The Reminisces of a CRUDmudgeon | Ph D Bruce Johnson | Taschenbuch | Kartoniert / Broschiert | Englisch | 2015 | Trafford Publishing | EAN 9781412099844 | Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, 36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr[at]libri[dot]de | Anbieter: preigu Print on Demand.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: My Years in the Information Technology Trenches, From Data Processing to Information Technology | The Reminisces of a CRUDmudgeon
• Publisher: Trafford Publishing
• Publication Date: 2015
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1412099846
• ISBN 13: 9781412099844
• Binding: Taschenbuch
• Condition: Neu
• Dimensions: 229W x 152H x 17D millimeters 229 millimeters width by 152 millimeters height by 17 millimeters depth
• Weight: 466 grams
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Synopsis

Showing intimate involvement in the world of computers since 1956, this work sets down experiences, observations, and adventures of one participant from these almost 60 years of information technology development. It shows the importance of a knack for and insight into computer operation including technical distance and computer system flexibility. Because the value of understanding technology is all too often not made clear to today's students and managers at all levels they tend to lack the ambition and interest in technical subjects to become qualified to make decisions regarding technology. One of the goals of My Years is to help overcome this phenomena by showing the importance of technology and related subjects and to show that they can be fun, exciting, interesting, while occasionally being terrifying. Subjects include: Ingenuity/insight into computer software and hardware operation, being a curmudgeon as well as a Crudmudgeon (showing the importance of the data cycle: Create, Read, Update, and Delete), the process of obtaining a PhD in order to be able to teach technology, as well as technical distance, and (in)flexible systems.

About the Author

Bruce Johnson has been retired at three different Colorado locations since the spring of 1998. Currently he resides at the Holly Creek Retirement Community in Centennial. In retirement he has coauthored journal articles and a trade book. Bruce received his BS in Civil Engineering in 1959 and his MS in 1962 (during which he detoured into information technology). After careers with Procter & Gamble, General Computer Services Corporation, Thoman Software, Billboard Publications, and as an independent data processor, he entered university teaching in 1982 at Xavier University in Cincinnati, Ohio. He acquired his PhD in Operations Management, Information Technology, and Organization Behavior in 1990. He obtained a MBA in 1985.