October 4, 1996
Internet graphical user interfaces (GUIs) and interactive TV are the hottest innovations in electronic engineering according to an exclusive survey published this week by CMP's Electronic Engineering Times (http://www.eet.com). In the newspaper's annual Salary and Opinion Survey's What's Hot, What's Not list, 79% of respondents marked Internet GUIs as a technology to watch, while 80% said the same about interactive TV.
Furthermore, the survey revealed that 53% of engineers feel the Windows interface is "mature," and an another 7% say it is "fading."
"The strong showing of Internet GUIs in our survey of trendsetters in the electronic engineering community is a direct reflection of the tremendous impact the World Wide Web has had on this industry," said Robert Bellinger, Editor, Salary and Opinion Survey. "These sentiments will pave the way for innovative technologies from Microsoft, Netscape, and others, that will add new browser-like functionality to the ubiquitous Windows interface," Bellinger said.
The other technologies that made the EE Times "What's Hot" list include wireless communications (90%), multimedia (79%), HDTV (74%), optical disks (64%), networks (64%), and artificial intelligence (61%). A handful of technologies, some once thought to be hot, that made electronic engineers' "What's Not" list include RISC processors (67%), and fuzzy logic (47%).
The What's Hot, What's Not list is one portion of the publication's annual Salary and Opinion Survey. Results were tabulated from 891 total responses out of 3,200 surveys that were mailed to U.S. readers of EE Times in June. The complete results of the study can be found on EE Times Online at http://www.eet.com.
EE Times, published by CMP Media Inc., is the leading publication covering the high tech OEM industry. The well-respected weekly is the only source that delivers news of both business and technology to the engineering community and technical/corporate management at electronics OEM organizations.
CMP Media Inc., now in its 25th year of uninterrupted growth, is the only provider of publishing, marketing and information services to reach the entire spectrum of the high-technology market -- the builders, sellers and users of technology. Along with EE Times, CMP publishes other category-leading titles including InformationWeek, Computer Reseller News and WINDOWS Magazine. All of CMP's publications and a series of innovative news and interactive services, are available on the World Wide Web through CMP's TechWeb(r), http://www.techweb.com, the industry's first free daily technology news and interactive services super site, since 1994. CMP Media is also the creator of NetGuide Live (http://www.netguide.com), the first comprehensive daily online guide to the Net, and First-TV (http://www.first-tv.com), the Internet's first 24-hour TV/video network.