Presper Eckert , co-creator of the world's first large-scale computer, known as the ENIAC.
The Ohio Bar Association built the first large-scale computer legal research system in the late 1960s, using technology developed for the U.S. Air Force.
Unlike the first model, which required you to hook the scale to your computer with a micro-USB cable and set it from there, this version can be set up from a smartphone.
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Mobile represents scale beyond the dreams of computer makers.
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In 2001, Hewlett-Packard made the first strategic mistake, the purchase of Compaq Computer that supposed to provide the company with the scale advantage in the PC market to compete effectively against Dell Computer (NASDAQ:DELL), IBM, and all sorts of emerging Asian competitors.
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While there are industries where it makes sense to allow duopolies or even monopolies to obtain economies of scale and network effects computer operating systems and electric utilities might be two examples the tradeoff usually is that they must accept closer government regulation to prevent price-gouging and other abuses.
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But experts say a successful, large-scale attack on U.S. computer systems could hobble electric-power grids, transportation networks and industrial-supply chains.
Mr Turing worked as part of the team which cracked the Enigma code at Bletchley Park in World War II and went on to help create the world's first modern computer, the Manchester Small-Scale Experimental Machine.
We aggressively pursued the market and growth because we thought we had to get up to a certain scale to survive the shake-up in the computer industry.
Chip-scale sensors already tell an SUV's master computer when the vehicle is about to roll over and the Wii game controller when the live player wants to swing the virtual bat.
Essentially, the process forms "trillions of holes to create insulating vacuums around the miles of nano-scale wires packed next to each other inside each computer chip, " which should aid electrical current in flowing around 35-percent faster while it eats up about 15-percent less energy.
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They're using data collected by the weather service during the storm, to try to understand the surge, try to understand the wave heights, and they're going to create a computer model, as opposed to the scale model of a city, for the storm as it came up from the south and the Gulf of Mexico, and see if they can recreate the exact conditions.
In another large-scale art installation, Babis Panagiotidis used 18, 000 recycled computer keys to make a life-size rocking horse.
They also used a recognised depression measurement scale to assess people, and carried out an emotion recognition computer test, - where people are asked to respond rapidly to happy or sad words.
The six-part series, narrated by Kenneth Branagh, used state of the art computer animation to show the behaviour of dinosaurs, on a scale which had not been attempted before.
In a large-scale experiment overseen by the Federal Aviation Administration , UPS is installing a computer navigation system on all 107 of its Boeing 757s and 767s that allows pilots to "see" other jets without radar.
This year, I would love to attend a session run by a business person with an English Major background (instead of a PhD in Computer Science), showing what they did with Data at scale, without huge servers, without expensive software or cryptic languages.
The scale relays your weight, fat mass, and BMI to your smartphone or computer, letting you chart a curve as your own curves expand or shrink.
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Web sites and computer networks have been targeted by hackers for decades, although large-scale, coordinated cyberattacks are still a relatively new phenomenon.
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.
"To get a useful computer it needs to be probably a million times more complex, so a full-scale useful factoring machine is still at least two decades away, " he said.
"As you add scale, your incremental cost goes to zero, " says Robert Greifeld, 51, a former computer salesman who took over at Nasdaq in 2003 as it was being spun out of the old National Association of Securities Dealers, now the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority.
Kazuo Hirai, Chairman of the Board of Directors of Sony Computer Entertainment America, submitted written answers to questions posed by the subcommittee about the large-scale, criminal cyber-attack we have experienced.
Unlike neatly defined science problems, which amaze more by their petabyte scale than their inherent complexity, virtual organisations are noteworthy because of their constantly shifting landscape of data and computer resources, and the authentication on which they rely.
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