It was several decades before scientists thought of designing systems that could work anywhere.
But if they have the same cognitive limitations as consumers, should they be designing systems of consumer protection?
"We should be designing systems that won't let users choose lousy passwords and don't care what links a user clicks on, " he wrote.
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Rather than talking about backward-compatibility, enterprise now has to embrace forward-compatibility, designing systems based on new technology to meet evolving user needs and creating customer value.
He took his experience designing dispatch systems for police cars and taxis and enabled individuals to similarly broadcast their location and intention using Twitter.
It would be nice if policymakers put as much energy into designing care systems to make that happen as into cracking down on hospice fraud.
Medical informaticists, researchers and innovative companies are focusing on this essential limitation of medical decision-making by designing information systems to be used by physicians at the point of care, during the patient encounter.
"The physics of flight at such small scales is relatively poorly understood which makes designing small flying systems very difficult, " he told BBC News, adding that biological systems provided "critical insights into designing our own artificial flyers".
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The rest is from providing services, such as designing and maintaining systems.
Terayon, six years old and public since last August, aims to win a slice by designing circuitry and systems nifty enough to give it an edge in cost and performance.
Even before NHTSA officials began talking about formal guidelines, car makers had adopted their own standards for designing safe infotainment systems, including a requirement that no task should require a driver to look away from the road for more than 15 seconds.
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PVPower: The company develops software for solar panel installers to run their businesses, such as designing solar-panel systems and managing their inventory of equipment.
We can learn a lot from the way that natural systems work in rethinking our own systems and designing out the whole concept of waste.
With additional support from robotic surgery, new technologies offer the prospects of designing new health care systems that address the needs of the elderly while lowering costs.
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But in the offices adjoining the plant, a company called Freescale employs 180 people designing hi-tech automotive systems.
This includes sections on determining the materiality of biodiversity issues, designing biodiversity information and accounting systems, and ways to measure and monitor biodiversity performance.
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"Prime Minister Singh noted Japan's interest in supporting the introduction of high-speed railway system in India, " the joint statement noted, adding that he "appreciated Japan's high level of expertise in designing and implementing" shinkansen systems.
These bottlenecks could radically inflate the price of basic materials like silicon and create labor shortages that would affect the costs of manufacturing solar modules, designing and installing new solar systems and operating and maintaining already installed systems.
Once seen as badly trailing its competitors in areas such as directional drilling and drilling fluids, Halliburton now has everything it needs to win contracts for projects such as designing, building and operating systems to manage production from oilfields.
However, the waters are now attracting larger rivals designing tablets powered by Microsoft operating systems, albeit different ones.
Among Roth's accomplishments: designing networks for kidney donations and creating elegant systems that enable huge urban school districts to optimally place multitudes of students among hundreds of schools.
Nikolaidis is designing filters for larger use such as local water systems.
So when designing that data center with powerful but rigid, scale-up systems, the tendency is to make sure it never comes up short.
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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.
It was cumbersome and not as elegant or efficient as the operating systems coming out of the traditional information technology sector, which had the experience of designing software for this functionality.
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The fact that big corporations are becoming so heavily involved in designing city infrastructure has led critics to question how quickly such a city may, like the computer systems they are relying on, become obsolete.
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