Sentence examples for a computer companion from inspiring English sources

They're not exactly computers they don't run Windows, for example–but rather something that can best be described as a computer companion, the main objective of which is to give kids in the classroom a keyboard to type their homework on that doesn't cost much and doesn't break easily.

Intelligence officers do their best to perform this task now, and human involvement will almost certainly never cease, but they would likely appreciate a computer companion saying, "there are multiple reports of stockpiling, and these articles on chemical warfare are being shared widely, this could point to rumors of terrorist attack" or the like.

3. ASTRONOMY GUIDE "The Astronomer's Computer Companion," by Jeff Foust and Ron LaFon (No Starch Press, 1999), is a combination book and CD-ROM.

Kevin Spacey lends his voice to the hero's computer companion.

It sounds like the Android-powered Companion Hybrid probably will be suitable more for light work while used away from a computer, whereas the Companion can probably act as a digital artist's only machine.

In Pictures: Ultimate Business-Travel Computer Companions.

In Pictures: Ultimate Business-Travel Computer Companions. "It's not just about having the coolest gadgets anymore," says Ryan King, an independent technology consultant based in Chicago.

From the obtained images, areas within the biopsies occupied by bone, biomaterial and connective tissue were identified using a pen computer (Cintiq companion, Wacom, Düsseldorf, Germany), coloured (Photoshop, Adobe, San José, CA, USA) and digitally measured using an automated image-analysis system (CellSens, Olympus Corporation) (Fig. 5).

His companion is a computer named Gerty, whose creepy kinship with HAL 9000 from "2001: A Space Odyssey" feels even more sinister because Gerty speaks in the sardonic deadpan of Kevin Spacey.

Embedding a robot with a companion computer is becoming a common practice nowadays.

The playwright Kenny Finkle aims for the cat lover demographic in this relationship comedy about a computer programmer and his chatty feline companion (1 50).