Building on the success of the Green Button initiative which is providing consumers with secure access to their own energy data and has facilitated the voluntary release of energy-use data in computer-readable form to encourage private-sector innovation the Energy Data Initiative aims to harness the power of energy data through a combination of technology and ingenuity.
The answer, according to the firms and organisations calling for change, is to put proper computer science in the form of coding on the curriculum.
There, a DNA-sequencing machine fired lasers at the fragments and read their genetic code, yielding a computer file in the form of As, Cs, Gs and Ts.
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The fine, though relatively small, is bound to give more ammunition to the anti-high frequency trading crowd, which is demanding regulators do something to stop this specialized form of computer trading, or at the very least slow it down.
Notebook computers are the fastest-growing form factor in computer sales--versus desktop computers and servers--and are also AMD's weakest category.
Biometric technology is even available for use at home in the form of inexpensive computer login products, according to Paul Collier of biometrics leader Identix.
In fact, Surface Pro will basically be a touch-screen version of an Ultrabook computer, the lightweight laptop form factor that Intel has been touting for the past year as a Macbook Air competitor.
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The report, from Gartner, sees tablets becoming the dominant form of personal computer (after mobile phones) in the next few years at the expense of traditional desktop PCs, even as total numbers of new users are on the upswing.
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This helps to reduce the number of interface ports needed on a Personal Computer, which is desirable as form factors shrink.
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So what's the future now that anyone almost can own a synthesizer in the form of some of the computer programs, KaBoom?
Meanwhile, in another part of the forest, Microsoft was launching the first computer it has ever made in the form of its Surface tablet.
Families now see 70 percent fewer computer screens as they fill out the form on-line and can now retrieve their tax records electronically from the Internal Revenue Service.
In 65 short years, the humble transistor evolved into an artificial life form called Watson, a computer system that recognizes natural language and, in 2011, handily defeated two former champions on the TV quiz show Jeopardy.
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Examine the sound-wave form of the album on a computer screen, and you will see a solid bar, free of any dynamic spikes or divots.
The exhibit takes the form of a multi-player computer game in which visitors are invited to explore a particular subject, such as the possibility of male pregnancy.
Have you ever been in the middle of filling out a form on a web page and you got called away from your computer, only to come back and discover the session had timed out and you had to fill out the form all over again from the beginning?
Additionally, it will draw in many people who have never owned a computer at all, because it has a compelling form factor and fantastic, intuitive interface.
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To take one example, an ObamaCare-mandated update to a major computer network called the System for Electronic Rate and Form Filing, which governs insurance approvals, has been delayed by months.
Web sites did not exist yet this was 1987 but computer networks and telecom systems were sufficiently linked to form a hidden electronic landscape that teen-agers with the requisite technical savvy could traverse.
Also, during my time on this job, my vehicle was stolen, along with all of the sensitive patient information I carried in the form of hard copies and on my computer.
But when shareholders don't have the documents in hand, they seem to have a hard time walking the form and its special code to the computer, despite an envelope that was redesigned last year to add a large "vote" logo.
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The software includes an auto-recognition feature that identifies any device plugged into a laptop, from an electrocardiogram machine to an electron microscope, and translates the signals into a form that can be received by hospital computer systems at the other end.
One of its better-known strategies comes in the form of the company's personal-computer gurus--also known as the Geek Squad--originally an independent company that was acquired by Best Buy in 2002.
Dr. Atzmon's vision and breakthrough technology led him to form Smartfish Technologies and launch a line of computer peripherals based on the company's ErgoMotion technologies, beginning with the Whirl Mouse, to promote a healthy PC lifestyle for work and play.
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Frank Gehry, a godfather of contemporary American design if there is one, is shown crumpling paper or aluminium foil into a form, and then scanning the shape by computer in order to reduce it to two dimensions or make it into a model, so that a design can be refined or manufactured.
One answer, of course, is to disconnect your computer from the internet completely, and never to accept any form of portable media from anyone.
Gamification is in fact already gaining a foothold in education, and some would argue that it has always played a prominent role in one form or another, even in the pre-computer era.
The millennium bug is a computer glitch which results from dates being stored in two-digit form on older computers.
They translate analog signals that move through a cable or over the air into digital bits, which form the binary code that's comprehensible to a computer.
So Fastcase and others are paying Indian data-entry firms 40 to 60 cents per 1, 000 characters to "triple-key" the books into digital form, with three typists entering the text and a computer picking the version at least two agree upon.
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