COMPUTER-GENERATED PRESENTATIONS - CURRENT STATUS AND FUTURE-DIRECTIONS

The personal computer allows the user to create professional presentat ions as good as any created by commercially available services. With t he new generation of inexpensive software, myriad fonts, layouts, grap hics, and imported images can all be used by the novice. The technolog y is currently available that can project images directly from the com puter, obviating the need for slides. This presentation will discuss t he relative merits and costs of such systems and the problems that rem ain concerning implementation at a national level.