Secrecy is a critical issue with patent applications, so people who file electronically will receive a digital certificate that encrypts everything at the originating computer and maintains privacy all the way to the agency's electronic mailroom.
Therefore, a significant effort has been made to develop K-12 interventions that improve girls' attitudes towards computer science and maintain their interest in computing through high school.
For fun -- when not managing the ship's varsity baseball team -- he builds computers and maintains his own Web site (www.geocities.com /hagakure/) with tips on Japanese culture, like when and where to take off your shoes, and on kendo, or stylized Japanese swordplay.
Computer-related aspects of the claims — including steps for creating records to store data, using a computer to adjust and maintain those records, and reconciling those records at the end of a trading day — in his opinion failed to add anything of substance that would save the claims.
Before the deportation order, the 21-year-old had completed four semesters at Cumberland County College, taking courses in biology, calculus and computer science and maintaining a 3.6 GPA.
Currently, most installations of digital library systems need personnel experienced with computers to administer and maintain them.
Cognet, a two-year-old company based in Valhalla, develops tools that update and maintain computer software without users even knowing.
At Wipro's sprawling suburban campus near Bangalore, enthusiastic young engineers in blue-and-cream cubicles write code, build software and maintain computer systems for a host of American companies, including Lehman Brothers, General Motors, Home Depot and Boeing.
Reflecting a marked shift in the high-technology industry in recent years, executives said the combined entity, officially announced this morning in New York, is intended to become a juggernaut in a growing category called "services," a potentially highly profitable business that entails assisting corporations to set up, organize and maintain computer and data networks.
Software engineers, working in applications or systems development, analyze users' needs and accordingly design, construct, test, and maintain computer applications software or systems.
