ESPRIT Technical Week, Information Technology Forum Day.

摘要

The European Strategic Program for Research and Development in Information Technologies (ESPRIT) has been reviewed annually since its beginning in 1984. The ESPRIT I was completed in 1988. The ESPRIT II is the second phase of the highly successful ESPRIT program. The Council of Ministers approved a second 5-year phase in April 1988 and 1989 represents ESPRIT II's first year of activity. The ESPRIT II work distribution is Microelectronic - 30 percent, Information Processing Systems - 20 percent, Office and Business Systems - 20 percent. The budget for ESPRIT II is 3.2 billion ECU, shared equally by participating companies and the EUROPEAN Community. Held in Brussels, the Information Technology (IT) Forum Day of the ESPRIT Technical Week is devoted to speeches of EC and European Parliament speakers and their private industry counterparts who give their assessment of the program. Some of the speakers also present plans. Keywords: Keywords: Information systems; Communications technologys. (SDW)