The businesspeople who know what questions would be the most valuable to answer have no idea of what machine data is, let alone what it can tell them.
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We sat in on an in-person demonstration of the machine recently and came away suitably impressed with what the machine can do--though we do have to wonder if consumers indeed want to do all these things on the PC.
To try to sell it, Jobs made a short digital film to show what the machine could do.
What this machine allows us to do is work around the clock to address the question: how many wells can you look at?
And speed is what this machine needs for applications like Adobe 's (nasdaq: ADBE - news - people ) Photoshop and Apple's (nasdaq: AAPL - news - people ) own Final Cut Pro for editing video.
But what about machine-to-machine (M2M)?
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TIGR's contribution is what will go in the machine, and what will be done with the results.
After several iterations and teaching the machine what answers are accurate, it is expected that Watson will develop enough expertise to assist a doctor in a practical situation.
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Mr. STEWART: Who is to know whether that machine counted every vote accurately or not if the voter has no way of verifying what went on inside the machine?
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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The market is a discounting machine on what the future brings.
Dell hasn't abandoned the quality that makes Dell, Dell: the ability to cram a whole lot of capability into a machine at what will ultimately be a nice price.
They dropped again in the evening as Prof Randell had arranged for one of Colossus's creators, Allen "Doc" Coombs, to attend and answer questions about the machine and what it did.
Campbell says she's not dropping the case until she finds out what happened to her machine -- and she wants ol' Blue to train its employees on privacy issues and revamp its warranty policy.
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The documents don't tell us anything about what hardware will be found inside either machine, but as Laptop Reviews note, included diagrams do hint at what they might look like.
What's left is machine-ready silicon atop a layer of insulator.
What is the distinction between machine guns and semi-automatic weapons?
Once you have a basic level of hardware functionality (what is called a Turing machine) all kinds of applications can be created with a mixture of hardware and software.
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Traveling down from the top of the hierarchy to the base sensations, he figures, the neocortex functions as a prediction machine, anticipating what we will see next, where the ball is headed or how an experiment might turn out.
But in an attempt to try to lay upon it some objective boundaries, we threw some numbers into the number-crunching machine to see what came out, to see if we could figure out at least one way of determine the best Super Bowl champ since 2000.
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But it's up to you to keep that info in synch with what's on your desktop machine.
And what is the market for this machine in the first place?
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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.
But some of you will be buying new laptops this spring and summer, so here are some tips on what to look for in a machine.
The people who understand the most important questions are not the same people with the skills to determine what answers can be found in machine data.
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We are not going to start, with a calculator and an adding machine, tracking down what people received from other sources, other funds, other help from relatives, savings.
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The match was held in New York City and was billed as the contest that would ultimately answer the big question: what is the most intelligent thinking machine on the planet?
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