Sentences with phrase «of big computers»

Applications for express - shipping - cost management, which used to be almost exclusively the province of big computers, are now spilling over onto desktops.

It isn't strange but part of the deception government meteorologists and climatologists practice in leading the public to believe they're improving because of bigger computers.

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In fact, when Facebook engineers were designing a new form of server to train computers to learn, one of their biggest battles was with the folks providing power to the data center.

• Fenox Venture Capital and AsusTek Computer Inc formed a $ 50 million venture fund, which will focus on AI, big data, Internet of Things, cloud, and AR / VR.

In a realm of swirling, incomprehensible big biological data — which is, perhaps, another way of thinking about the human body — the opportunity to use computer learning to better anticipate which drugs will work well (and not so well) in any one person is one we shouldn't pass up.

Meanwhile, the phenomenon of crypto - jacking — in which hackers hijack your computer to mine digital currency — has quickly morphed from a novelty to a big league threat.

Modest about her own pioneering achievements, she is on record (in an interview with computer historian Janet Abbate) as saying that her biggest contribution was to be «the grandmother of the web».

More hackers realize there's big money in taking over the computers of firms and demanding cash to set the data free.

In our world of trying to make everything bigger and faster, the challenge for companies ranging from SAP to Google (GOOGL) has been how to get more information into the DRAM, because if you want real - time data processing (for example, the Internet of things or for business transactions) you want jobs performed right next to the computer processor.

The unlocking of smartphones and computers has become a legal niche, but this niche will soon grow to become a big part of many cases, Cook says.

Rometty is no exception: She came to Big Blue as a systems engineer in 1981 after graduating from Northwestern with a degree in computer science and electrical engineering at Northwestern and doing a two year stint at the General Motors Institute (a condition of her college scholarship).

While the specifications for each device are important for those building with them, the creation of two new, cheap, low - powered computers is far bigger than the community of makers and hobbyists that will snap up these boards.

Next week Merkel will for the first time speak at Gamescom, Europe's biggest computer games trade show that's expected to draw about 350,000 visitors, many of them teenagers who attend dressed like their favorite digital heroes — from Star Wars stormtroopers to Manga heroines and fantasy game sorcerers.

You also know Bob, Dot and Enzo, because like Nintendo and Pokémon, ReBoot, the world's first computer - animated television series, was a big part of growing up in the»90s.

Although it's a big legal issue — and I am fascinated that no one that I know of has brought suits against the computer industry for knowingly selling defective products — my real concern is geopolitical.

Although Softbank - which had recently acquired the personal computer industry's biggest trade show (Comdex) and publishing company (Ziff - Davis)- was barely a blip on the industry's radar, Son had dreams of becoming a big player in the fast - growing tech sector.

One of the biggest hacking threats to companies and to customers» sensitive data comes from a surprising source without a computer's help.

«The big challenge is that the level of computer power that one of these things needs is pretty high,» Wilcove says, adding that as the market evolves, he can imagine a communications app for far - flung business meetings «where you're all virtually sitting around the table in different locations with one of these headsets on, James Bond - style.»

Somewhat predictably, the majority of the slowdown within manufacturing has been concentrated in transport equipment, which reflects the downturn in the auto industry, and information and computer technologies (ICT), a sector that took a big hit when telecom giant Nortel went belly up.

Logitech, the world's biggest maker of computer mice, could also increase it profitability target in future, Darrell said.

The migration of original programming online has been among the biggest themes in entertainment over the last few months, with House of Cards making cable operators stand up and take notice as audiences adjust to watching entertainment on computers and mobile devices.

Pandey believes his company's big advantage over competitors such as VMWare and NetApp is that Nutanix uses flash memory devices located inside individual servers instead of connecting computer servers to separate storage systems.

Big Data While the definitive source of the term big data — which is used describe a collection of analytics that companies use to predict customer behavior — is a little fuzzy, according to some digging done by New York Times reporter Steve Lohr, the person responsible for its popularization is a man named John Mashey, a computer scientists who was VP and chief scientist at company called Silicon Graphics in the early 1990s and 200Big Data While the definitive source of the term big data — which is used describe a collection of analytics that companies use to predict customer behavior — is a little fuzzy, according to some digging done by New York Times reporter Steve Lohr, the person responsible for its popularization is a man named John Mashey, a computer scientists who was VP and chief scientist at company called Silicon Graphics in the early 1990s and 200big data — which is used describe a collection of analytics that companies use to predict customer behavior — is a little fuzzy, according to some digging done by New York Times reporter Steve Lohr, the person responsible for its popularization is a man named John Mashey, a computer scientists who was VP and chief scientist at company called Silicon Graphics in the early 1990s and 2000s.

Technology analysts have credited Cloudera, founded in 2008, as one of the pioneers in popularizing big data technologies like Hadoop, which companies use to store and process massive amounts of data across thousands of computers.

The company has, over the past decade, transformed itself from a humble maker of computers into the biggest and most important technology company on the planet, mostly by eschewing the gadget - only approach.

Unity is a company that makes a computer graphics engine that underlies some of the biggest video games in the world.

In fact, the city has a bigger proportion of its population employed in the computer and electronics industry than any other city in the country.

Apple made a big expansion to mobile devices, which now provide the vast bulk of the company's revenue compared to the traditional desktop and laptop computers.

The Always - On Society John Sculley, former CEO of both PepsiCo and Apple Computer, predicted that wireless devices and networks would be «at least as big as the PC.

I think two of the biggest reasons are that computer science, as a major, has been dominated by men, and so the people coming out of CS programs have been male, and the venture - capital partnerships that have grown up since the»50s were almost exclusively male.

Big tech companies like Microsoft, Amazon, and Google have invested millions of dollars in their respective digital assistants, which they believe will be a major way that consumers will interact with computers — joining the standard keyboard, mouse, and touchscreen.

For AI to be more valuable, it needs to be able to look at the big picture and include many more sources of information than the computer systems it is replacing.

Already the world's largest PC maker, Lenovo is now determined to become a bigger player in smartphones as more people rely on them instead of laptop and desktop computers to go online.

Some of the most important data visualizations ever created go way back, well before computers and big data existed: Charts that changed history.

China is regarded as the biggest global source of computer hacking.

The deal is the biggest to date under the leadership of CEO Satya Nadella, and the logic, according to some reports, is that Microsoft (MSFT) would be able to swell the already formidable ranks of Minecraft players by its position in computer and console market, and increase revenue from licensing for merchandise and other spin - offs.

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The Big Picture In many ways, the motherboard is the heart of the modern computer system, as it affects almost every other component.

Specifically, Greenleaf disapproves of Clinton's big government philosophy and the controversies swirling around her, including using a private computer server for federal emails.

Microsoft sees Apple computers as a key part of its plan to make a big business out of Internet phone calls and messaging.

Software developers at many startups and some bigger companies love AWS partly because they can use their corporate credit cards to order the computer power they need to test out new applications, often without the knowledge or permission of their corporate overlords.

Like Shallenberger, many CEOs at growing businesses dream of someday harnessing the power of big - company computer systems.

Without the help of computers, there was a limit to how big his company could grow.

A recent summer job at a marketing firm identified a big gap in Smith's education: he had to use computer coding as part of his job of updating the company's blog entries and he had no idea how.

Sure, big batches of data and photos are needed to make sure these kind of computer vision applications work, but Apple insists that it doesn't need your photos, specifically.

The biggest bank heist in 2015 was actually carried out by an unknown group apparently with access to the computers of the global banking world since 2013.

2015 saw the biggest bank heists ever seen, and it all happened from the comfort of a computer.

Also of note is that Google Earth is no longer a download - only program — it can now be accessed from any computer with Google Chrome installed, with support for the other big browsers coming soon.

If — as many tech companies hope — augmented reality is one of the big developments of the next few years, we're going to need some way of providing input for our face - mounted see - through computers.

How big a problem is the pipeline — the fact that women earn only 18 percent of computer science degrees?