Other people living in Bedfordshire, Buckinghamshire and Hertfordshire to be given awards include Professor Janet Thornton, head of the European Bioinformatics Institute, who was made a Dame for services to bioinformatics, the application of computer science to the field of biology and medicine.
All we needed to do was a small amount of Active Directory integration in the background, and like magic, staff could access the application from any computer and my IT team was relieved from managing a sometimes flaky application with all too frequent updates.
Can you imagine installing a large software application on your computer without seeing a progress bar showing you its completion percentage?
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Being a young industry, there are few tools, procedures or standard data formats or service interfaces in place to guarantee data, computer application and service portability.
Flash memory is the backbone of modern mobile consumer devices and the higher performance and ruggedness of this storage technology make it attractive for computer application as well.
What technology, whether computer or application, can lay such claim?
The previous version required a farmer to develop a water application map on a computer, upload that map to a thumb drive, and transfer it to the irrigation controller.
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It will co-ordinate the development and application of standards for computer support to meet the requirements of the shared bibliographic system and services in co-operation with the National Libraries of the countries participating in the COBISS network.
The EEG monitor communicated directly with a computer running an application that triggered the do not disturb setting through the API.
Ford also used the keynote to announce My Ford Mobile, a smartphone application that links up with the computer in Focus Electric, providing a information like how far the car will drive on its current charge, individual driving trends, and the location of nearby charging stations.
The application is designed to stop using the computer's central processing unit (CPU) when it is left to run in the background.
The Clickfree backup application will automatically start, search the computer, organize and backup all of your important data onto the external hard drive.
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The XO is packed with hyper-designed creativity worthy of Apple, including a unique software environment that lets kids collaborate in real time on applications ranging from a simple programming simulation to music-making programs (three come pre-installed) and even an application for using sonar to pinpoint the computer's distance from other nearby XOs.
The XO is packed with hyper-designed creativity worthy of Apple (nasdaq: AAPL - news - people ), including a unique software environment that lets kids collaborate in real time on applications ranging from a simple programming simulation to music-making programs (three come pre-installed) and even an application for using sonar to pinpoint the computer's distance from other nearby XOs.
But how can an entrepreneur, without a background in computer programming or engineering develop an application?
"People can have this next level, " said Adrian Clark, a computer scientist who worked on the application.
The service includes a smart application that operates in the background of your computer managing the upload and day-to-day syncing of your music library.
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The MSN toolbar also comes with a desktop search application which indexes the contents of your local computer so you can find files and messages quickly.
With the Entervise Remote Expert application running on Motorola's HC1 headset computer, we can perform independent quality oversight at nuclear power plants without requiring a second person to enter restricted areas.
Apple has eliminated all (valid) complaints about iOS (notifications, computer dependency and the anemic mail application being the biggest ones), launched a free mail, contacts and calendar server for all iOS and Lion users, and promoted iOS devices to be computer-independent, all while delivering the biggest concession from the music industry we have seen so far in a side-note.
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Some of its solutions include Computer Aided Design (CAD), Application Lifecycle Management (ALM), and Service Lifecycle Management (SLM).
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Udacity offers 11 STEM courses like "Introduction to Physics, " "Intro to Computer Science, " and "Web Application Engineering" -- all free.
For instance, a calligraphy course that he took on a lark after dropping out of Reed College found practical application 10 years later in designing the first Macintosh computer, and influenced the typefaces used in other computers.
Hoffman tried the Skype application, but says being forced to sit at a computer to make calls just won't work for him.
The YouTube video shows some of the various standard applications that come with the XO-1: Firefox, an unnamed instant messaging program, a variant of Abiword (word processing), and an application called eToys that looks like a combination of traditional computer games (such as Chinese Checkers) combined with something resembling the children's art program Kid Pix.
In a matter of minutes a drive can become accessible through any Internet connected computer, as well as through an innovative iPhone application.
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To do so, Microsoft would have to produce a personal computer that broke with today's GUI conventions and Windows application compatibility.
The SanDisk Ultra Plus SSD is ideal for consumers who want to boost their notebook or desktop computer's boot, shutdown, data-transfer and application launch times.
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The application will also automatically restore all files to their original locations on the computer without the user having to know anything more about them.
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This file resides in a computer with an IP address and may be associated with a particular application.
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