Mr. Vakil, who is now a product manager for a video chat company, set up computer feeds from assorted real-estate sites, checking daily.
When a customer order comes in, he said, the computer feeds the order directly to a robot, which moves automatically to a storage slot, slips a lift under the tote, slides it out, then goes to place the boxed item on a conveyor belt.
For example, Cory Arcangel's work "Permanent Vacation," named after the Aerosmith song, features two computers feeding each other out-of-office notifications on an eternal loop.
The habit of watching on our televisions and our computers feeds the hunger for access to movies, and, for movies that are unavailable otherwise, it's a godsend.
The ability of regular consumers to make digital copies of CDs easily with their computers fed such services and, in Hollywood's view, led to the weakening of the major music labels.
In this period's later part, Jackson would move to London to supervise the scoring and continue editing, while having a computer feed for discussions to The Dorchester Hotel, and a "fat pipe" of Internet connections from Pinewood Studios to look at the special effects.
Kubrick, playing the part of the solicitous computer, started feeding him lines.
Joe Zawadzki's traders spend their days in front of two computer screens, feeding their systems with data and trying to perfect their trading algorithms.
PAGE C7 EXCHANGES FOR LEFTOVER AD SPACE As advertising exchanges -- where companies bid to place their online ads on space provided by publishers -- gain popularity, Madison Avenue is borrowing tactics from Wall Street: Traders who analyze advertising now spend their days in front of two computer screens, feeding their systems data and trying to perfect their trading algorithms.
