Office furniture maker Steelcase asked RWD to design a system that could help even computer-illiterate salesmen configure and price a suite of office furniture using a laptop.

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The independent inquiry board set up to investigate the first explosive failure said the flight control system failed because of errors in computer software design.

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Students in the program learn to use computer-aided-drafting (CAD) to design a photovoltaic system, they learn about the sorts of issues that come up when designing such a system, and they learn about the installation and maintenance of such systems.

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What our man Pascal Brisset did is design a Linux system around a Gumstix Overo Fire computer-on-module, a Vuzix VR920 head-mounted stereoscopic 640 x 480 display (complete with 3D tilt sensor and 3D magnetic compass), WiFi, and Bluetooth modules -- the whole shebang resides in (and on) the eyewear, just the thing for secure telepresence and augmented reality applications (or just extra-private web browsing).

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Just as human-computer interaction was once a burgeoning new field and now is a given in system design, human-future interaction is poised to become more essential to our strategic planning and innovation processes.

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Students work on certification as Unix system administrators, and Sun helps with curriculum design, offers teacher internships and sets up computer labs, says Leslie Bowers, Sun's enterprise network services workforce program manager in Milpitas, Calif.

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Instead of trying to revamp JIMS with brand-new technology, Harris County has stuck to its grand-design architecture by migrating its legacy database to the more current Model 204 Database Management System, made by Computer Corporation of America, and rewriting Cobol applications in the Model 204 language.

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