Researchers once assumed that the cortex, the information-processing hub of the brain, was always destroyed in vegetative patients.
However ingeniously information-processing technology is used, what seems certain is that threats to traditional notions of privacy will proliferate.
In another application, scientists selectively stimulated brain cells in animal models of Parkinson's disease, a disease that involves the disruption of information-processing in the brain.
Dr Most thinks that the explanation for this temporary blindness is that there is an information-processing bottleneck in the brain when it is presented with important stimuli.
But although the resulting circuits work on rather different principles from those invented by Dr Kilby, there is a sense in which all of this year's winners are linked by the theme of information-processing.
Service industries, such as information technology, data-processing, consulting and public relations, can barely contain their glee.
The greatest impairment is found in attention, memory, judgment, decision-making, information processing and language skills.
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Both games taught me some interesting lessons in non-software assisted processing of information.
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But another take is that, as with most political issues, the public is operating in a low-information environment, and is reasonably processing the information it has.
Our technology industry component covers 11 six-digit NAICS sectors covering information industries such as software publishing, Internet publishing, data processing, and tech-related business services such as computer systems design, custom programming, engineering services, and research and development.
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Software patents are definitely still in and companies may press further into the area of electronic processing of information, such as the so far-unpatentable methods of compressing digital signals.
For nearly a generation, the information sector, which comprises everything from media and data processing to internet-related businesses, has been ballyhooed as a key driver for both national and regional economic growth.
It found IRS managers had allowed "inappropriate criteria" to be developed and stay in place for more than 18 months, resulting in "substantial delays" in processing applications for tax-exempt status, and requests for "unnecessary information", such as lists of donors.
That is iMac desktops are the hub from which your mobile devices can sync and share information, but the hub provides greater storage and a larger screen for more labor-intensive "processing" such as document or photo album creation.
It indicates that most of the processing work - identifying people and other objects in view, and deciding what information to show about them - would likely be carried out by remote computer servers in order to keep the equipment slimline.
For four decades after World War II, the federal government made enormous investments in research universities, national laboratories, communications and micro-processing technologies, and the necessary infrastructure to support the development and commercialization of information technologies that have transformed the American workplace, created entire new industries, and made the American economy the most productive in the world.
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When human brains come across uncertainty, they tend to pay attention to information more because they want to figure it out, which leads to longer and more in-depth processing.
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