It looks like something you might find at the bottom of the bargain bin at a computer fair, but this device is being touted as an exciting new way to train the next generation of computer programers.
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It costs Intel, the industry giant, several billion dollars to build a foundry to make new-generation computer chips.
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"The final result will be a ... next-generation computer code which the public can have confidence in, " said professor Victor Ransom, who is also on the Purdue team.
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Mobile devices are really becoming the personal computer of the current generation.
Thus the cataract operations that will allow the recipients to return to work, and the digital education that will create a generation of computer-savvy Mexican youth.
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The next-generation of computer operating-system interfaces from Microsoft and Netscape is dispensing with most metaphors in favour of something that looks more like the typical text-and-image Web article than like the Mac's faux office.
But Cambridge, the birthplace of computers from the Edsac to the BBC Micro, has at least produced an attempt to address that problem with the Raspberry Pi, which aims to inspire a new generation of computer scientists.
Due to the lower cost per GB of a 2.5-inch hard disk drive, the Archos tablets will offer 250 GB of storage for about the same price as 32 GB of flash memory on a current generation tablet computer.
Andy Clark, a director and trustee of the National Museum of Computing, said the vintage machines helped to generate interest in technology: "People come along, look at them, get engaged and interested, and that's our next generation of computer scientists".
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It may be a matter of national pride (and, as a result, an effective mechanism that some may use to siphon funding from Congress to subsidize HPC research), but the much more important question is whether we are investing in the education and training of the next generation of computer scientists who will use the power from such machines.
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Rwanda's secondary school teachers come here to learn how best to pass on computer skills to the next generation.
Viruses -- the first generation of the computer culprits -- are used for the computer equivalent of vandalism, as the malicious programs replicate, spread and damage computers.
In October 2008, Apple introduced its next-generation MacBook laptop computer.
Similarly, while Apple's OS X's user interface is not just easy to use but engaging, it's just a candy shell built around the kind of tried-and-true Unix software that's powered everything from phone networks to computer science labs for a generation.
New technology creates new product and investment opportunities that will drive the next generation of datacenter, computer and consumer devices.
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Ballmer introduced its next-generation touch-sensitive table computer during his keynote speech at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas Wednesday.
One is code-named Cherryville and is a second generation 6 Gbps SATA 3 SSD for computer applications.
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The game is also credited with inspiring a whole generation of game designers, just as the computer revolution took root.
But this generation of older people grew up before the computer, and technology should be at most an adjunct to personal care.
For a generation brought up on British 8-bit computer games, there was and is only one true Olympian, and that is Daley Thompson.
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Unlike the dawn of the computer age, where we saw little benefit for a generation, this new technology will begin affecting our daily lives within a decade.
The new generation has been reared on Pixar-style computer-animated films.
And I think our generation has so much time by themselves at a computer that folk music is something that feels a little more organic or tangible.
Founded in 1937 as an auction house for used appliances, it first became well-known in the 1980s for selling the assets of an earlier generation of bankrupt Silicon Valley firms, such as Osborne Computer.
But the company is riding high on computer giant Compaq's decision to use Creative's second-generation digital video disk upgrade kit in its new PC lines.
In 1967, long before Microsoft, Oracle, Sun, and Apple were launched, Merrill Lynch published a research report correctly predicting that the computer industry would be one of the great growth stories of the next generation.
Rather than dismiss my proposal, Al gave me the full measure of his time and insight even though a new generation of ground-based full-motion simulators based upon advanced digital computer technology was emerging, which FlightSafety would later incorporate.
Next-generation firewalls (NGFWs) have evolved into the first line of defense against computer malware.
Now fast-forward to May of last year, when Venter and his team reported in Science (The Creation of a Bacterial Cell Controlled by a Chemically Synthesized Genome in Science), the successful generation of a cell directed entirely by a synthetic genome, programmed from a computer and synthesized piece by piece.
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