At the time Re-think Wireless thought a machine-to-machine infrastructure would be the most likely application area.
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As I drove home from dinner that night, I began think about how that machine replaced at least three parking attendant jobs.
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His weapon: a rolling, 3-foot-tall machine (think R2-D2 from Star Wars) called the Xenex that bathes hospital rooms with intense, millisecond pulses of ultraviolet light from a high-wattage strobe light.
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This used the life of Alan Turing, a mathematical pioneer who broke the German Enigma codes and fathered the modern computer before running foul of the homosexuality laws in the 1950s, to examine how a man who had difficulty with ordinary human feeling devoted his life to creating a machine that could think and feel.
"Without a paper trail attached to a voting machine today, I think any election would be suspect, " Heller says.
If the machine works as researchers think it will, chess masters ought to look out -- Blue Gene would be 1, 000 times more powerful than the Deep Blue machine that defeated world chess champion Garry Kasparov in 1997.
If you spot something attached to a cash machine that looks illegitimate, think carefully before you touch it, warned Mr Krebs.
It sounds like a boon for arcade owners, who won't have to manually inspect each machine, but Apple seems to think differently.
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For a mere 20-pound machine, you wouldn't think a leaf blower could produce as much pollution as a one and half ton automobile.
"I just don't understand how you can possibly think that the Commodore 64 is a better machine than the Apple IIe, " I told my best friend in eighth grade.
Adrian Lund, research director for the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety, cautions that even the most well-intentioned new technology could backfire if designers do not think carefully about the interface between man and machine.
Indeed, judging by the hype machine and media coverage, you might think it's already a big hit.
I'm not sure what the neuro part of the neuro-fuzzy means, but I think it means that the more you use this machine, the more it thinks about you.
Shameless plug: you should seriously think about putting one in your street rod or street machine instead of another 350 Chevy.
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Think the Reggie teams would have beaten the Big Red Machine?
This is a machine, familiar from science fiction, which some engineers think could be made science fact.
But if you're at CES this week, and feeling a little glum, just think of Adelson and plunk a few quarters in the nearest slot machine.
He also said that there was a danger that many people would think that any message telling them that they had an infection on their machine was a scam.
What, do you think you'll be able to go through life with a tiny calculating machine in your shirt pocket, she screamed.
Simply put, what is a perfect machine in terms of engineering specs may be useless, if customers happen to think so.
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One might think that those droll little witticisms that Siri sometimes comes up with a the result of a machine intelligence gaining a sense of humour.
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Until the machine actually shuts down, the dialog box continues to respond to clicks, which makes you think that it's ignoring you.
So what do you think will be the outcome of a new lawsuit claiming that CERN's Large Hadron Collider is a Doomsday machine?
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"I think it's stunning, " said David Blatner, editorial director at InDesign Magazine, as he stroked the machine's shell lustily.
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