INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY IN MINING
In the past decade, the concept of information technology has been firmly embedded in our daily lives. People have stored, retrieved, processed, and transmitted information since the invention with shumers of writing around 3000 BC, however the term “information technology” in its modern sense first appeared in a 1958 paper published in Harvard Business Review. Its authors, Harold J. Livitt and Thomas L. Whisler noted that “this new technology does not yet have a single generally accepted name. We will call it information technology (IT)”. Without the use of modern computers, means of communication, various information networks and channels, neither the educational process, nor the production, nor the management, nor the social sphere are conceivable. The study of modern information systems and technologies is given increasing attention in the development of curricula for the training of specialists in various fields and specialties. Mining and construction technologies are not bypassed by information technologies, so an integral part of the training of modern mining and construction engineers is the mastery of both general basics of informatics and special knowledge on the application of applied computer programs, geographic information systems, special computer graphics, computer modeling systems and much more