Alongside the development of silicon computer chips (integrated circuits to many of us) there was a companion revolution.
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This first offering from Proteus is a placebo, with silicon computer chip attached.
Nanotechnology techniques such as self-assembling promise researchers an intriguing alternative to continuing to refine the most commonly used technique for building transistors on silicon computer chips, namely, optical lithography.
According to Silicon Graphics Computer Systems, a leading supplier of 3-D workstations, prices have fallen by a third every 12 to 18 months.
For him, the pocket-sized device is to 3Com what the Java programming language is to Sun, a Silicon Valley computer firm: the crown jewels.
Silicon Graphics Computer Systems ( SGIC - news - people ), a leading supplier of 3-D workstations, prices have fallen by a third every 12 to 18 months.
It can be made a model of DNA, or a model of a whole city like this one is, and sometimes they can make the model exist in the silicon of a computer, so you've got a computer model, and other times, they actually use real silicon and sand, which they're doing it, in this case, like a giant hands-on model.
If it was a race between Obama, Romney and a Silicon Valley robot computer, the Valley would overwhelmingly vote for the robot computer.
In Ikeja, we even have our own Silicon Valley called Computer village, where people are selling the latest software, computer gadgets or IT needs.
Computer chips and silicon micromachines are ready for your body.
If Proteus is right, and these sensors become commonplace, exponential growth in digital medicine for compliance monitoring will require as much silicon wafer manufacturing as all computer chips use today.
That Orange County mortgage broker (who used to be a pizza delivery guy) can take a class online from the University of Phoenix (APOL) and become a computer engineer in Silicon Valley.
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But HP, a company synonymous with the birth of Silicon Valley, and Compaq Computer, a Houston-based firm which once pioneered PC price-cutting, may yet have to restructure their deal or abandon it entirely.
The report was put together by David Moore and Stefan Savage of the University of San Diego Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Vern Paxson of the ICSI Center for Internet Research in California, Colleen Shannon of CAIDA, and Stuart Staniford and Nicholas Weaver of computer security firm Silicon Defense.
The computer maker on Wednesday is discussing its advances in making optical-communications components from silicon, the mainstay material used in conventional computer chips.
Such frustrations nudged Lieber toward silicon, the mainstay of the computer-chip business.
This tends to be more true in places like Silicon Valley, where workers are computer savvy and housing costs are onerous.
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Still, even with more females joining the Silicon Valley entrepreneurial ranks, the computer science field remains dominated by males, and the numbers have been getting worse.
At the risk of being too simplistic to make silicon wafers, which is what you use to make computer chips and solar cells, you take a great big ingot of very pure silicon metal and then slice it very thinly.
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The graveyard of once-high-flying stocks includes Digital Equipment, Apollo Computer, Data General and Silicon Graphics (now SGI).
Different in the way the silicon chip is different than the Eniac computer.
As Isaacson writes, Hewlett-Packard ruled the Silicon Valley roost when Apple became Apple Computer Co. in January of 1977.
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Founded in 1937 as an auction house for used appliances, it first became well-known in the 1980s for selling the assets of an earlier generation of bankrupt Silicon Valley firms, such as Osborne Computer.
The proof-of-concept computer won't give silicon circuits any threat when it's running at just 0.15Hz and takes up as much space as a mini fridge, but the hope is to dramatically speed up and shrink down future iterations to where there are advanced computers that occupy the same size as real muscles.
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According to the letter from UCITA's Ring, the following software industry organizations are supporting the draft -- industry antipiracy body the Business Software Alliance (14 members, among those Microsoft Corp, Lotus Development Corp. and Adobe Systems Inc.), the Software Information Industry Association, Silicon Valley Software Industry Coalition and the Computer Software Industry Association.
In Silicon Valley, Ruby is clearly the coolest computer language and has proven itself as a foundation for successful web applications.
Unsurprisingly, the potential blending of car and computer technology has strong support in Silicon Valley, which senses a lucrative new market just around the corner.
G6 mainframe computer depends on the use of silicon chips with copper connections that draw on solid-state physics research done in the firm's laboratory in the 1980s.
Leila Chirayath Janah, founder of San Francisco nonprofit Samasource, talked about the thrill of providing refugees in Kenya with computer-based work commissioned by Silicon Valley companies (including Google).
Much work is left to get the proteins producing the kind of silicon or titanium dioxides that could run a computer or power your house, but the dream is to have synthetic creations that organically produce what would normally need a mining expedition -- imagine something akin to the glass-like Venus' Flower Basket sponge (pictured above) sitting in an Intel factory.
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