Hardly, he retorts: a decade ago, Unilever had a huge computer network for sharing internal information.
It has land, buildings, stores, shelves, warehouses, trucks, huge computer systems.
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Grid computing attempts to connect up the islands of processing power and data in the world's universities and to standardise ways of interrogating data and calling on huge amounts of computer power.
That dream had grown from small beginnings: from him, a student at the University of Illinois in Urbana, hanging round a huge old mainframe computer on the night of the Fourth of July in 1971, with the sound of fireworks still in his ears.
The computer was never a huge hit, but before long, Apple Computer had established itself as one of the most creative and important forces in the computer industry.
The computer was never a huge hit, but before long, Apple Computer (nasdaq: AAPL - news - people ) had established itself as one of the most creative and important forces in the computer industry.
Whelton, 20, had run a computer club at his own school, and saw a huge demand for more resources to teach computer programming skills to young people.
This is because of the steady growth of telephone connections and the huge increase in demand for computer connections to the Internet.
He could replace antiquated linotype machines with computer technology, a huge cost saving on productivity.
He has a day job designing strategy computer games for Big Huge Games of Hunt Valley, Md.
Apple's slick laptops have become ubiquitous on college campuses and account for a huge chunk of Apple's computer sales in the United States.
Huge leaps forward in film and computer-generated technology means Sir Ridley Scott and his production team can do much more than they could four decades ago.
Simon Clutterbuck, James Jacobs and Dr. Richard Dorling won for inventing a technique which has made huge advances in bringing to life computer-generated characters such as Gollum in Peter Jackson's The Hobbit.
The computer industry is undergoing huge changes and soon a significant amount of computing may happen on devices that we do not traditionally think of as computers, computing appliances and other devices with no screens or keyboards that are controlled using voice commands.
In the late 1980s, program trading (currently known as computer trading) caused a huge drop in the stock markets.
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Why does a city and a country which have played such a huge part in the history of the computer, still produce so few world-class technology companies?
Shadow Account starts with a jolt when Conner Ashby, a young investment banker relaxing at home with his gorgeous girlfriend, sees something he wasn't supposed to--an e-mail, mistakenly sent to his personal computer, which discusses a huge accounting fraud.
When a virus infects a computer with a throttle, a huge backlog of requests develops within a few seconds.
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Smartphones of various kinds are the universal global computer, essentially, and the huge audience means companies such as Angry Birds creator Rovio can become huge very fast.
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Mr. BARTON: Well, our zestimates are developed by some sharp statisticians and computer scientists who have taken a huge amount of data, over two terabytes of data, from counties across the country.
Brewster's spare office has a computer, a lonely bookshelf and a huge whiteboard, the better for brainstorming sessions.
For the past 10 days, the bank has been trying to clear a huge backlog of transactions that was caused by a computer system problem.
This one family, in Ogden, Utah, has watched as five children in two generations have died from a mysterious disease that science could not explain.. Thanks to huge leaps being made in DNA sequencing and in computer programs to decipher genetic code, researchers were able to find the gene for this disease in just sixteen months.
He says that Visa has a great brand, a huge network and one of the most powerful, reliable computer systems on the planet.
Unfortunately, it involved building an artificially intelligent observer and, even more problematically, that observer had to be a quantum computer, a device that exploits quantum mechanics to do huge numbers of calculations in parallel.
Since drug molecules can also be represented by computer models, it will eventually be possible to throw a huge range of virtual compounds at a virtual heart to see which, if any, have the desired effect.
They abuse the vast power of technology to build black markets for weapons, to compromise law enforcement with huge bribes of illicit cash, to launder money with a keystroke of a computer.
"We are dissipating huge amounts of power in chips right now, " said Professor Stan Williams of computer firm Hewlett Packard.
Most big computer makers no longer build what they sell, but outsource production to huge, albeit lesser-known providers of manufacturing services such as Flextronics or Solectron.
The computer giant uses many common elements across its products, and then leverages its huge scale in negotiations with chip suppliers, pitting them against each other to capture the carrot.
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