He saw that these projects started off with blueprints that were produced in Computer Aided Design (CAD) systems.

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The SBDC program not only aided small businesses in assessing systems for year-2000 compatibility, but it also addressed the issue of carefully documenting all remediation efforts, an area on which smaller businesses were not focusing.

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The Stanford team's work was featured recently as an invited paper at the prestigious International Electron Devices Meeting (IEDM) as well as a "keynote paper" in the highly regarded IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems.

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Hongkong Bank has been aided by the relative newness of its systems.

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Software now covers a maze of different industries, including applications software, operating systems, databases, the Internet, computer-aided design and networking.

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Fire brigade crews used their ventilation systems and were first into the building to douse the flames before Green Goddess crews aided the evacuation.

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And of all the artifacts that have aided cognition, the most important is the development of writing, or more properly, of notational systems: number systems, writing, calendars, notational systems for mathematics, engineering, music and dance.

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