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The impact of distributed computing on educationIn this paper, developments in digital computer technology since the early Fifties are reviewed briefly, and the parallelism which exists between these developments and developments in analysis and design procedures of structural engineering is identified. The recent trends in digital computer technology are examined in order to establish the fact that distributed processing is now an accepted philosophy for further developments. The impact of this on the analysis and design practices of structural engineering is assessed by first examining these practices from a data processing standpoint to identify the key operations and data bases, and then fitting them to the characteristics of distributed processing. The merits and drawbacks of the present philosophy in educating structural engineers are discussed and projections are made for the industry-academia relations in the distributed processing environment of structural analysis and design. An ongoing experiment of distributed computing in a university environment is described.
Document ID
19820040555
Acquisition Source
Legacy CDMS
Document Type
Reprint (Version printed in journal)
Authors
Utku, S.
(Duke University Durham, NC, United States)
Lestingi, J.
(General Motors Institute Flint, MI, United States)
Salama, M.
(California Institute of Technology, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Applied Mechanics Technology Section, Pasadena CA, United States)
Date Acquired
August 10, 2013
Publication Date
January 1, 1982
Publication Information
Publication: Computers and Structures
Volume: 15
Issue: 2, 19
Subject Category
Mathematical And Computer Sciences (General)
Accession Number
82A24090
Funding Number(s)
CONTRACT_GRANT: NAS7-100
Distribution Limits
Public
Copyright
Other

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