Computers are productive, efficient machines that excel in a wide range of areas of daily and professional life.
- Education: teaching and learning, result processing, student data processing, question preparation, online education via Computer Aided Learning (CAL) and Computer Aided Instruction (CAI).
- Communication industry: switching incoming and outgoing calls in telephone exchanges; sending and receiving electronic messages such as fax and email.
- Transport industry: automobile traffic control in busy towns; coordinating the movement of goods and wagons for railway corporations.
- Airline industry: controlling aircraft movement, take-off and landing via radar; making flight reservations; storing flight information.
- Library services: keeping updated records of books and materials; searching for titles instead of using a manual card catalogue.
- Domestic and entertainment: watching movies, playing music and games, storing personal information, keeping home budgets, and in household items like microwave ovens and televisions.
- Multimedia applications: preparing business presentations, running slide shows and digital video clips, music synthesizers, and adding stereo sound and video to games and movies.
- Defense: missile control, military communication, operation and planning, and smart weapons.
- Government institutions: budgets, tax departments, computerization of voter lists and driving licenses, e-citizen services, weather forecasting.
- Health care: keeping patient and medicine records, scanning and diagnosing diseases, controlling life-support machines in the ICU, sharing expertise across countries, and assisting in surgery.
- Banks/insurance industries: managing financial transactions via ATMs, processing cheques and payrolls, record keeping, and electronic money transfer.
- Research: scientists analyzing experimental data (e.g. in weather forecasting); engineers and architects designing and testing their work.
