Information and communication technology plays at present an important role in the process of scientific, economic and social development for any country. It aims to achieve progress, increase production and productivity, improve product quality and to reduce the time spent in many scientific and administrative operations.     While the technology of information and communication was at its beginning level in the Arab world, Iraq stepped forward to establish the National Center of Computers early in the seventies and to bring about computer science departments in the universities of Baghdad, Basrah, Mousl and in the university of Technology early in the eighties of the last century. Steps were also taken to start manufacturing computers and to encourage the wide use of computer in research work and in developing administrative works.

The University of Technology worked hard to possess the technology of information and communication since the first day of its birth to implement this technology for academic, cultural and research objectives in an attempt to develop its administrative works. As such, a computer center was established in the beginning of 1974 with two computers and two persons.

The idea of establishing a computer center at the University of Technology at that time was very necessary for the purposes of:  Seeking the help of the center cadre in training programming languages to its scientific departments to provide trading to the growing numbers of researchers and students of undergraduate and postgraduate studies as how to use computer for their academic needs. Practical training for the students from different departments of the University and training institutes and to meet the needs of other governmental offices to use the available input devices (Punch Machine) so as to prepare, examine, and execute their programs to obtain the final results. Running (Continuous Instruction) courses at the university in relation to computer programming and its scientific applications in cooperation with Iraqi engineering society.

As the university of technology achieved great steps in the process of scientific development being the pioneer among other universities and due to the increasing need of the growing departments and students, there appeared the need to develop and enhance the work of the computer center through:  Increasing the number of punch machines in the center. Purchasing computers to satisfy the scientific, financial and administrative needs. Constructing the structure of a well trained technical and administrative cadre for the computer center to meet the needs of the university.

 

The following Flow Chart represents the administration framework of the Computer Center in the year (1975) :

Installed in 1977

Installed in 1978

Installed in 1979