This is very much the way certain kinds of machine intelligence systems work (including ExpertMaker which I have covered) where representative examples are used to model much larger populations.
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Instead of shelling out tens of thousands for machine-based systems to analyze your data, you can get your own data with a little know-how and a bit of time.
Vending machine manufacturer Crane Merchandising Systems is working on its own monitoring hardware, as is Mars Electronics, maker of dollar-bill changers.
In some ways, the Khan Academy and other start-ups are packing in some elements of these machine-based tutoring systems as they evolve and grow, such that this revolution is really already under way.
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Is Sun working on a slimmed-down version of the Java Virtual Machine for use in embedded systems?
Systems based on machine learning filter out noise in big data or high resolution models by scanning for patterns that humans would like to find but cannot.
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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.
Having full ARM and x86 systems in the same machine opens up a whole bunch of new possibilities.
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With the newest addition to its engineered-systems family, the Exadata X3 Database Machine, Oracle is giving customers more justification to realize they need to move beyond the traditional and non-optimized systems of the past.
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Machine data, which is produced by systems about detailed activity in large volumes, is something that CITOs know a lot about.
There is a lot more to say about the architecture of systems based on the man-machine framework.
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In most cases, the systems involve customized algorithms based on machine-learning methods.
The next layer includes a variety of additional services and activities: radio and television studios, machine shops, carpentry shops, automatic teller systems, recreation facilities, chapels, libraries, athletic facilities, and the list goes on.
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In the new world, larger machines "virtualize" the actions of smaller computers inside their systems, changing capacity as needed inside the machine.
The a significant number of organizations could probably make quite a bit of hay from using Splunk, a distributed software for distilling and analyzing machine data that can be applied to data in file systems, in databases, or in Hadoop clusters.
While prior governance and risk control (GRC) systems for IT were essentially large spreadsheets that required a good deal of manual entry, Brinqa actively listens to machine data and other low-level outputs from IT systems, then lets users assign and customize risk indicators for their particular organization.
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While the BlackBerry's plastic keyboard and tight integration with corporate e-mail systems makes it an unbeatable e-mail machine, Nielsen Mobile's first-quarter data show that the iPhone is all about multimedia, playing music, video and online games far above the average usage of those services for other mobile phone users.
The source code for all of these systems is closely held by the five big voting machine companies.
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"They're suggesting something magically happens between what you see on the screen and what's stored in the machine, "says Thomas Swidarski, president of Diebold Election Systems.
In addition, the tech advances made control systems less expensive and sophisticated controls became available in machine tools that cost tens of thousands instead of millions.
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At its best, the machine automatically arbitrages the value of goods and services between different monetary systems.
The credit card payment machine maker's overall revenue was helped by a 19% rise in its systems solutions group.
Centralized backup for multiple systems on the network, including very intuitive, native support for Apple Time Machine on Mac OS computers.
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At present the K-MAX has no defensive systems, but Lockheed Martin says the helicopters could easily be fitted with armour, machine-gun pods or flares which could be fired as decoys to divert ground-launched missiles.
Of course, there are significant provisos to get through first -- it's only one machine, running on Apple's drivers, testing mostly Apple applications, and the two systems default to different versions of QuickTime -- but we can still glean some indication of where the two heavyweights are relative to one another.
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As the passage implies, even something as seemingly simple as an airplane flying in the sky is actually just one part of a large sociotechnical system composed of various human and machine elements, from the pilot and airplane to a series of airports, communication and navigation systems, bureaucracies, regulations, rules and norms of flight, and more.
Bureaucratic systems and processes were put in place to make the system tick over like a boring clockwork machine.
The control programs have been used to create control systems for a bipedal robot and a visual recognition system for a robot that works even when the machine is distracted by flashing lights and shadows.
The software includes an auto-recognition feature that identifies any device plugged into a laptop, from an electrocardiogram machine to an electron microscope, and translates the signals into a form that can be received by hospital computer systems at the other end.
In addition, the machine is expected to enhance NNSA's ability to sustain the stockpile by resolving any significant findings in weapons systems, bringing greater power to the annual assessment of the stockpile, and anticipating and avoiding future problems that inevitably result from aging.
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