It took the Internet, though, to really crank up the information pitching machine.
There is fundamental difference between the attachment of cookies to track where a machine has been in support of targeted advertising and systems that gain access to the personal information on the machine.
And the Internet is a gigantic information-organizing machine.
Rotenberg said he still has privacy concerns about millimeter wave machines, including what information is captured by the machine -- even if unseen by screeners -- and how long that information is retained.
The ability to go back and forth between that information and the actual machine would be useful and might give shoppers less excuse to check out models on their smart phones or iPads while in the store (in the process perhaps spotting a lower price and leaving to buy online).
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Spectators watch the proceedings behind soundproof glass, and receive audio on a 40-second delay so that a court security officer can switch on a white noise machine while classified information is being discussed.
One possibility is to put readers inside high-end corporate printers, then install dots loaded with software upgrade information on toner cartridges, easing machine care.
When you pop in a title the machine scans it for information and creates an on-screen catalog, searchable by the artist, title and type of disc.
The information isn't stuck on a machine over there, it's accessible instantly.
Reservation and customer information resides on the restaurant's machine.
Then, in 1975, a change of government brought a change in policy and Prof Randell was invited to the Cabinet Office to discuss the first official release of information about the Allies' main codebreaking machine.
Machine learning distills the raw information about the behavior of each individual customer and creates associations that are accurate, but general enough that a campaign based on those associations has a good chance of success with a substantial group of people.
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Other factors that will increase storage capacity growth are the creation and sharing of user generated content and the growth of machine to machine communication (and thus information storage) such as smart grid networks, video surveillance, big science in astronomy and physics and other emerging automated users of storage capacity.
Peterffy thought he could pull information from the Nasdaq terminal without touching the machine.
What is the percentage change of information the agency publishes online in open, machine-readable formats over the year before?
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Compulsory audits, he suggested, would not eliminate all problems but could cut out on incidences of sensitive information "being sent to the wrong fax machine or dropped in the street or left on an unencrypted memory stick".
Quick recap: his new device, the Ion Torrent Personal Genome Machine, is a less expensive machine that provides more limited DNA information than can be had from current devices sold by Illumina of San Diego and Life Technologies of Carlsbad, Calif.
Mr Schmitt says it should be possible for a robot builder to specify what a servo needs to do, rather than how it needs to be made, and send that information to a 3D printer, and for the machine's software to know how to produce it at a low cost.
Machine learning methods effectively combine many sources of information to derive predictions of future outcomes from past performance.
Another way that man-machine framework applications succeed is by presenting distilled information to people so that our visual intelligence can become active.
All of that information is fed back to my alarm clock (and coffee machine for that matter) via the Internet.
There's no questioning the value of having a small screen to quickly check up on information like email and stock tickers without booting or waking the machine: unfortunately, because Vista is fresh off the block, there aren't a lot of other "gadgets" kicking around.
There must be a highly specialized machine to turn the jumble of zeros and ones into information that a human can absorb, which is not at all obvious in a timescale measured in hundreds of years.
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The action has shifted from one machine to many, a network of sales, services and information-sharing.
But others fear the machine is yet another example of a technological advance that gives doctors useless or ambiguous information in the operating room but can provide a treasure trove of evidence in the courtroom.
Many Splunk clients have discovered that machine data is not just about the break and fix cycle but can also reveal important information about customers and partners.
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Selerity is at the forefront of information, where data must be quickly sought, extracted, put in context, and distributed to both machine and human audiences.
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When a ball is pitched to the robot, an accelerometer at the back of a batting cage records information about the flight of the ball, including its speed, and this data is relayed back to a machine that holds the GPU-powered brain.
Cancer prevention information comes through various media: TV, pamphlets in the waiting room, and, of course, that rumor machine the Internet.
The information is then put into a computer that is attached to a 6-foot-by-7-foot machine filled with all types of vitamins.
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