And on the flip side, numerous instances of leaked personal data from computerized databases have heightened privacy concerns.

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Edward Richards, director of Louisiana State University law school's program in public health, says such devices are feeding ever more data into computerized patient records systems--including mistakes nobody notices at the time.

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Innovation: The team creates thousands of evolutionary designs during the racing season, based on terabytes of sensor data, test runs, and computerized simulations.

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Up until 1982, when I officially changed careers, my computerized technical analysis had been accomplished by manually entering data into a spreadsheet program.

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