Those tools were more than inventive bundles of computer code.
The computer server which holds and transfers E-mail files is undramatic... David Singer, a senior software engineer with the Internet Technology group, at I.B.M., who described how the messenging system was originally developed to track giant bundles of computer punch cards... "All this technology is wonderful," David Singer said over lunch that day.
Paul Maritz, chief executive of VMware, compared its move in the cloud to Microsoft's introduction of a bundle of personal computer productivity programs for white-collar workers in the 1990s: Microsoft Office.
The project is a bundle of advanced computers and machine-learning algorithms called the Never-Ending Language Learner, or NELL for short.
It stands in a cluttered robotics laboratory here at Worcester Polytechnic Institute where a team of students, engineers and software hackers are training the 330-pound bundle of sensors, computers, metal struts, joints and cables.
By bundling the processing power of thousands of computer servers, a company, for example, could allow two employees from different countries who speak different languages to communicate directly by phone, using voice recognition software to process what is being said and translation programs to interpret it into another language.
They bundle the power of hundreds of thousands of computer systems in botnets in order to carry out large-scale attacks.
Similarly, the electronic tongue is essentially a bundle of sensors attached to a computer that can taste the substances found in a beaker of liquid to determine their flavor.
The box was fitted with a tiny lens that poked out toward my face and a bundle of wires that coiled back into his computer.
The box was fitted with a tiny lens that poked out towards my face and a bundle of wires that coiled back into his computer.
