It is operated from a computer workstation, rather than by traditional aircraft controls, and has an automatic landing system.

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"It's going to be a little bit different in a couple of years, waking up in the morning and sitting in a freshman English class rather than going to my computer workstation and hacking code all day, " Brockman said.

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No wonder we wanted a wall between the developers and the sysadmins, particularly since, in theory, the advent of the personal computer and desktop workstation meant that we could all be responsible for our own machines.

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First conceived by Dr Douglas Engelbart and aided by Bill English -- who would later design the first "ball mouse" -- at the Stanford Research Institute in 1965, the mouse was first used commercially by Xerox in their "Star Workstation" computer made in 1981.

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The person familiar with the matter said that the attackers gained access to Google's computer code by compromising a workstation used by a Google engineer.

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Having been designed from the start for use on a personal computer rather than a powerful workstation or even a mainframe, Tsunami and Typhoon use memory extremely efficiently.

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Huang used an iPad and MacBook Air to access rich computer-aided design files and special effects software that typically require a burly graphics processor running on a dedicated workstation or server.

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