If either Oracle or Sun had truly understood what it was they were trying to provide when they ventured out with the network computer concept, we might already be dealing with a whole different desktop experience -- and a new set of vendors to provide it.
With the help of algorithms and filters to smooth out anomalous signals, the computer can translate those intentions into instructions that can move a cursor or a wheelchair.
In a statement, the Department for Education said it agreed with Microsoft and that was why the "out-dated ICT curriculum" was scrapped last year, with computer science now being taught in schools.
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Through new software, we're working with customers to reduce the number of computer servers out there, which reduces energy needs.
Meanwhile, Jobs was experimenting at his new company, NeXT Computer, with the far-out ideas that would later spark a renaissance at Apple.
After starting the taxi out to the runway Monday morning, we were informed that there was an issue with the computer system, and they were unable to start one of the plane's engines.
One outfit stands out: Apple Computer, with its charismatic founder, the 22-year-old Steve Jobs.
Microsoft helped out with the data structures and search needs for making a computer-intensive movie.
As long as Cuba was not free, she would go on sitting at her computer with her little dog stretched out on the tiles beside her, alert for the telephone, with her front door open and Santa Rita at the ready, and the ceiling fan turning slowly in the smothering air.
With computer networks, compatibility is everything, and being out of the mainstream exacts a cost from the users.
Putting out more patrols, or spending time meeting with local leaders (controlled by the computer), should also have various effects.
In one corner, a teacher checks out one of the molecule models printed by a colleague and starts chatting with a computer science engineering student who's fiddling with the 3D scanner nearby.
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Jake Davis, 18, was charged with unauthorised computer access and conspiracy to carry out a distributed denial of service attack on the Serious Organised Crime Agency's website.
Hennessy, a professor of electrical engineering and computer science with 23 years at Stanford, has the right background to figure out the university's new role.
For someone with the current brain-computer interface technology, it takes tremendous concentration and effort to type out a short message on a computer screen.
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History is littered with examples, such as the Seiko Ruputer wristwatch computer, that sounded great in theory but turned out to be lemons in practice.
If all you do with your computer is blast pixelated zombies and print out letters to friends, you might not notice the bug even if it does inhabit your machine.
To find out which team, the American League or National League, will come out on top, Sony Computer Entertainment America has tapped into its own gaming simulation with MLB 12 The Show.
The topic of supercomputing in finance might get more attention now that Cray has come out with a commercial computer.
In 1985, Mr Jobs left the company after falling out with colleagues, only to return in 1997 and begin Apple's transformation by launching the colourful iMac computer.
Similarly, Apple faired badly after Jobs was forced out in 1984, coming close to bankruptcy before he was brought back in 1996 with the acquisition of NeXT Computer.
She was hanging out with MIT alumni in the Bay Area and was talking with an MIT classmate, Christine Yen, a computer science major who worked at Google (GOOG) and Aardvark, in August 2009.
Mrs Esack was working on a computer at reception when Mr Esack arrived, "mumbled something" before lashing out with the knife.
And in the meantime he's been spending his days on a hobby that periodically stuns the computer security world: seeking out cracks in the source code of Apple's iPhone, a device with more software restrictions than practically any computer on the market, and utterly obliterating its defenses against hackers.
Checking the computer, she figured out that a doctor had already ordered a potassium infusion for the woman with the low level.
Donna said it had been "great interacting with everyone in the workshop", and that she and Fiona were looking forward to carrying out more research together using the computer when they got home.
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