8-Use of PCs in Hydrology.

Abstract

PC family of computers, comprising IBM compatible PC, PC-XT and PC-AT, are a powerful tool, not only for mathematical computation but also for information processing. But hydrologists, in India, have so far used PCs only for computational purposes. PCs' power for information processing has not been sufficiently exploited. Further developments in the field of artificial intelligence parallel processing, expert systems will make PCs even more useful. To take advantages of these developments, hydrologists will have to give more attention to software development. As of now software development is not treated as an independent activity, the software that is presented in various forms is usually, a by-product of some other work. Software that has not been validated by competent software specialists can lead to disastrous consequences, as it already has in some other fields.