Application areas of computer-XI

2. What are the application areas of computer? Explain in details

Some important application areas of computer are described below:

Bank

Banks use computers for general purpose computation, to maintain ledger to handle transactions, to make entry in passbooks, to issue fixed deposit receipts, to provide online service to customers who want to perform bank transactions from home terminals and to answer customers at bank terminals regarding their balance, etc. Computer also allows customers to make withdrawals and deposit via ATM.

Medical and health care

There has been an increasing use of computers in the field of medicine. Now, doctors are using computers right from diagnosing the illness of monitoring patient’s status during complex surgery. By using automated imaging techniques, doctors are able to look inside a person’s body and study each in details.

Education

In schools and colleges, computer can be used to help the process of teaching and learning almost any  subjects in a much better and more interesting manner. Teachers can use screen diagrams to explain different topic, more clearly and easily. Computer can be used by students as well to do their home works, mathematical problems and to check spelling of difficult words. It is very effecting tool for online education. Many universities offer distance education through internet.

Transportation

Computer is used in transport of railways and airlines. It is used for seat reservation, control of traffic and maintaining time table of vehicles and duties of crew. Computer is used in all fields of air traffic. It helps to control the traffic and safe movement of the aero planes.

Printing and publishing

Computer has now become an effective tools to the publishers, writers and painters. It can do typesetting for newspapers, magazine and books. The user can change, add or delete words easily. These days computer does almost all types of designing.

Space Technology

Today computer is used extensively for exploring space. Man could not have landed on moon without the use o calculating power of the computer. It is used in designing modern spacecraft. During flights it helps astronauts in monitoring the functions of the various equipments and spacecraft.

Businesses

Businessmen make bar graphs and pie charts from tedious figures to convey information with far more impact than numbers alone can covey. Furthermore, computers help businesses to predict their future sales, profits, costs etc. making companies more accurate in their accounts. Computers may also play a vital role in aiding thousands of organizations to make judgmental and hard-provoking decisions concerning financial problems and prospective trends.

Energy

Energy companies use computers to locate oil, coal, natural gas and uranium. With the use of these technological machines, these companies can figure out the site of a natural resource, its concentration and other related figures. Electric companies use computers to monitor vast power networks. In addition, meter readers use hand held computers to record how much energy is used each month in homes and offices.

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