"WarGames" director John Badham also worried that people would eventually tire of watching Matthew Broderick reading aloud from a screen, so he pushed Mr. Parkes and his co-screenwriter Lawrence Lasker to devise a way to make the computer talk, like HAL in "2001: A Space Odyssey, " even though no such technology existed at the time.
When computer scientists talk about the possible threat to humanity from superintelligent AI, they don't mean the Terminator or Matrix.
But as this week's Cleverbot video showed, if you let a computer program talk to itself, there's probably not a human alive who would buy it.
When one computer wants to talk to another that is not on the same switch, it must find a path to that computer called a frame.
Where they once boasted about performance, computer-makers now talk about performance-per-watt, and emphasise their energy-saving credentials.
For now, it's a lot of talk and computer models -- but the companies involved are ready to put their money where their mouths are.
Instead, it relies on common software protocols and formats so that individual computer applications can find and talk to one another across the internet.
The test subjects said they wanted to talk to their computer, but after five minutes of actually doing it, their throats were getting sore and the room, with everyone talking to their computers, was noisy and obnoxious.
Gallagher, along with his friends, are able to talk to him by computer and he to them.
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Big talk from a little computer company nobody has heard of.
In the waiting room on the executive floor, the head of risk from a subsidiary in a neighbouring country is pouring himself a coffee, having driven for an hour from his own office to talk about a new computer system.
He also said Apple's rumored announcement of a tablet computer was hanging over Microsoft's talk.
It would have a computer and an interface that let it talk to other data networks in the ship.
Are you telling me Apple expects me to hold a tablet computer up to my face when I talk to people?
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Later it fended off personal computer manufacturers by making special adaptors that let PCs talk to other devices.
The company uses a team of psychologists to develop computer-generated scripts that Ocwen employees use to talk borrowers through loan workouts.
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He carries pictures of his kids in his iPod and hopes to set up a video camera on the next computer he's issued from CNN so he can talk to home.
When you talk to people online, you disappear into the computer.
But all of this translation talk is also generating discussion about the weaknesses of current computer-translation technology.
Engineers are not asking for the computer code that drives the interfaces, merely for the means to talk to them.
Or, talk to your friends who are science, math and computer geniuses.
He used videoconferencing equipment to talk to recruits and coaches face-to-face via computer, a tactic within the NCAA rules.
In the summer of 1998, Max Levchin, a twenty-three-year-old Ukrainian-born computer programmer, had just arrived in the Bay Area when he heard Thiel give a talk at Stanford on currency trading.
Alan Wells attacked the "daily grunt" culture, in which parents no longer talk to their children and instead just let them sit in front of the television or computer for hours.
With all this talk about small-form-factor PCs going on, not to mention the Vista-equipped computer bandwagon that's steaming through today, Lenovo apparently figured it might as well hop on.
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