We talk about more than just the future of computers, we talk about the future of computation and where they see the world going.
Both of these advances are helping to build the foundation for practical quantum computing, and point to the possibility of consumer grade quantum computers in the future.
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Sources suggest that people in the global equity derivatives department may have fed inflated estimates of future dividends into the computers.
Now the real fight is over the future of smart phones, the tiny, hyper-connected computers that have become far more personal than any PC could hope to be.
The ibeam will also showcase the future possibilities of natural user interfaces for computers and tablets using gaze interaction.
In Nvidia's labs engineers hover around a cluster of 16 six-foot-tall computers that mimic the behavior of a future Nvidia product hooked up to an ordinary PC.
It was leading the rest of the world into the future with the demonstrative power of democracy and free markets, new technological breakthroughs in automation, computers, communications, energy, medicine, space travel, to name a few.
Professor Cipolla says Zoe is "the interface of the future", part of a trend towards abandoning the keyboard and mouse and finding new ways of relating to computers.
So his team is positioning the fund for the future by investing in telecommunications companies with good cash flow - likely candidates to benefit from the convergence of telephony and computers.
Home to two of the most innovative labs and research in the high-tech industry, Intel and McAfee will also jointly explore future product concepts to further strengthen security in the cloud network and myriad of computers and devices people use in their everyday lives.
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"I see today's robot toys as predecessors to the future of the robotics industry just as my Apple II and Atari now seem like toys compared to computers today, " Trower says.
While Professor O'Brien said he is confident that such waveguides are the logical choice for future optical quantum computers, he added that there is still a significant amount of work to do before they make it out of the laboratory.
In Asia, where far more people carry cellphones and watch TV than surf the Net, the investments also acknowledge that Internet content will in the future be accessed over different types of wired and wireless networks and on various devices, not just computers.
On Thursday, the SIA reported that global semiconductor sales rose 5.5% in August from the previous year, thanks to higher sales of personal computers and cellphones, but warned of a weak future.
In the future, surgeons may be able to take an MRI of, say, a liver and duplicate the picture on computers to take a virtual walk through the organ to plan for surgery.
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