ENCYCLOPEDIA OF MICROCOMPUTERS VOLUME6 ENCYCLOPEDIA OF MICROCOMPUTERS EXECUTIVE EDITORS Alien Kent lames G. Williams UNIVERSITY OF PITISBURGH PITTSBURGH. PENNSYLVANIA ADMINISTRATIVE EDITORS Rosalind Kent Carolyn M. Hall PITTSBURGH. PENNSYLVANIA VOLUME6 Electronic Dictionaries in Machine Translation to Evaluation ofS oftware: Microsoft Word Version 4.0 Boca Raton London New York CRC Press is an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, an informa business CRC Press Taylor & Francis Group 6000 Broken Sound Parkway NW, Suite 300 Boca Raton, FL 33487-2742 © 1990 by Taylor & Francis Group, LLC CRC Press is an imprint of Taylor & Francis Group, an Informa business No claim to original U.S. Government works This book contains information obtained from authentic and highly regarded sources. Reason- able efforts have been made to publish reliable data and information, but the author and publisher cannot assume responsibility for the validity of all materials or the consequences of their use. 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Neil Stone 167 ENGINEERING ECONOMY SOFTWARE Ralph Swalm 201 THE ENGINEERING WORKST A TION AND THE ENGINEERING SUPPORT SYSTEM Donald 0. Knight 207 ENHANCED GRAPHICS: MOLECULAR MODELING Curt Gistrup, Lie! NiJrskov-Lauritsen, and Stejjen B. Petersen 239 EPIDEMIOLOGY AND MICROCOMPUTERS And rew G. Dean 275 EPROM Stuart R. Ball 293 iii iv CONTENTSOFVOLUME6 EPSON CORPORATION Douglas Kline 297 EQUIPMENT AND SOFTWARE MAINTENANCE Bennet P. Lientz 303 EQUIPMENT LIFE CYCLE MANAGEMENT THROUGH MICROCOMPUTERS Michael J. Bennett 315 ERGONOMIC ASPECTS OF COMPUTER USE Noreen MacMorrow 325 ERROR DETECTION AND CORRECTION Roger R. Flynn 343 EVALUATION OF SOFTWARE - see APPLICATION SOFTWARE: EVALUATION Volume 1, pages 222-235 EVALUATION OF SOFTWARE: MICROSOFT WORD VERSION 4.0 Malcolm C. Rubel 401 CONTRIBUTORS TO VOLUME 6 STUART R. BALL, Principal Engineer, BTI Systems, Inc. Oklahoma City, Oklahoma: EPROM MICHAEL J. BENNETT, Management Engineer, DALFI, Inc., San Diego, California: Equipment Life Cycle Management Through Microcomputers ANDREW G. DEAN, Epidemiology Program Office, Centers for Dis ease Control, Altlanta, Georgia: Epidemiology and Microcomputers ROGER R. FLYNN, Associate Professor, Department of Information Science, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania: Error Detection and Correction ADRIAN V. GHEORGHE, Ph.D., Professor, Department of Manage ment Science, Faculty of Electrotechnics and Power Engineering, Bucharest Polytechnic Institute, Bucharest, Romania: Energy Management CURT GISTRUP, Research Scientist, Novo Nordisk, Bagsvaerd, Denmark: Enhanced Graphics: Molecular Modeling MICHAEL G. GONZALES, Assistant Professor and Chairman, Com puter and Information Sciences, Gwynedd-Mercy College, Gwynedd Valley, Pennsylvania: The Electronic Timesheet EBEN LEE KENT, Standard Rate & Data Service, Inc., Wilmette, Illinois: Electronic Mail DOUGLAS KLINE, Ketchum/Boyle Public Relations, Los Angeles, California: Epson Corporation DONALD 0. KNIGHT, Ph.D., P.E., Professor, Arizona State Univer sity, College of Engineering and Applied Science, Tempe, Arizona: The Engineering Workstation and the Engineering Support System BENNET P. LIENTZ, Professor, Graduate School of Management, University of California, Los Angeles, California: Equipment and Software Maintenance V vi CONTRIBUTORS TO VOLUME 6 NOREEN MAC MORROW, Lecturer, Department of Information Science, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, Scotland: Ergonomic Aspects of Computer Use LEIF N0RSKOV-LAURITSEN, Research Scientist, Novo Nordisk, Bagsvaerd, Denmark: Enhanced Graphics: Molecular Modeling STEFFEN B. PETERSEN, Senior Research Scientist and Department Head, Biostructure, Novo Nordisk, Bagsvaerd, Denmark and Adjunct Professor of Biostructure, Arhus University, Denmark: Enhanced Graphics: Molecular Modeling MALCOLM C. RUBEL, President, Performance Dynamics Associates, New York, New York: Evaluation of Software: Microsoft Version 4.0 PIETRO SCHICKER, Ph.D., Zellweger Telecommunications AG, Hombrechtikon, Switzerland: Electronic Mail Message Handling Sys tems x.400 MICHAEL B. SPRING, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Department of In formation Science, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania: Electronic Publishing J. NEIL STONE, Chief Engineer, Esco Engineering, Kingsville, Ontario: Engineering Applications RALPH SWALM, International Management Center, Cazenovia, New York: Engineering Economy Software VICTOR SHOU-CHUAN Y ANG, University of Pittsburgh, School of Library and Information Science, Department of Information Science, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania: Electronic Dictionaries in Machine Transla tion ENCYCLOPEDIA OF MICROCOMPUTERS VOLUME6