Book excerpt: This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the First International Conference on Applied Computing to Support Industry: Innovation and Technology, ACRIT 2019, held in Ramadi, Iraq, in September 2019. The 38 revised full papers and 1 short paper were carefully reviewed and selected from 159 submissions. The papers of this volume are organized in topical sections on theory, methods and tools to support computer science; computer security and cryptography; computer network and communication; real world application in information science and technology.