Microsoft, for example, has been developing software that takes advantage of the different times an acoustic wave arrives at each microphone in anarray around the screen of a computer.
The tiny super-computer also boasts an impressive array of mega-hot software like Word, Excel, a picture browser, an e-book reader, paint brush -- the list literally goes on and on.
In the 21 years since Hurricane Andrew slammed Florida, insurers, reinsurers and credit rating agencies have come to rely on computer models that generate anarray of hypothetical storms and try to predict the extent of possible property damage.