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The paper consists of four sections relevant to information technology in China. An overview of the information technology trend and its multi-dimensional impact on the development process of the country has been given in the introduction. Then to cope with the challenges of the technological applications and outcomes, the problem of the shortage of qualified workers has been raised and the prevailing unsatisfactory curricula both for managers and information engineers are outlined and discussed. In the last section, an alternative concept of information is explained.
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Feng Shan Professor of Systems Engineering in the Department of Automatic Control Engineering and Institute of Systems Engineering, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, Hubei, PRC. She graduated from Beijing Tsinghua University in 1957, with majors in Electrical Engineering and Industrial Automation. She received the M.A. degree in Mathematical Economics and Demography in 1982 from the State University of New York at Stony Brook, USA. Her research and teaching activities include the development and application of computer and systems analysis techniques to information processing systems and intelligent decision support systems. She has published extensively, with more than 60 referred publications. She has presented invited papers and lectures at numerous conferences and workshops. In the past few years, she has averaged about ten presentations/publications per year.
Cai Jun received the B. S. degree in electronic engineering from Suzhou University, Suzhou, P.R. China, in 1987. Currently, he is a Ph. D. candidate of Systems Engineering in Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China. His research interests encompass the theory and application of neural networks, fuzzy logic and evolutionary computation.
Li Tong received the M.S. degree in Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China, in 1994. He is now a Ph. D. candidate of Systems Engineering in Huazhong University of Science and Technology. His current research interests are in the areas of artificial intelligence and intelligent decision support systems.
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Shan, F., Jun, C., Tong, L. (1997). Information Technology in China. In: Barta, BZ., Tatnall, A., Juliff, P. (eds) The Place of Information Technology in Management and Business Education. IFIP — The International Federation for Information Processing. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-35089-9_7
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