But feasibility also came in a confluence of related technologies that made computers usable by nontechnical people: mice pointing devices; graphical, or image-based, interfaces; widespread commercial access to the Internet; and perhaps most important, affordable personal computers with sufficient power to search for and display graphical information.
Efforts to extract computer-usable information from free text archives vary widely.
This paper presents SEAS, the Secure E-voting Applet System, a protocol for implementing a secure system for polling over computer networks, usable in distributed organizations whose members may range up to dozens of thousands.
The goal of Enso, Humanized's flagship product, is to make computers more usable for everyone.
It's the difference between a working, usable computer and a pet project by Microsoft engineers.
What, in fact, can users contribute to design and how can we best include their contributions in the development process in order to produce usable computer systems?
As soon as the SSEM had demonstrated the feasibility of its design, a project was initiated at the university to develop it into a more usable computer, the Manchester Mark 1.
"A big thing Steve Jobs did for the world was to insist that computers could be usable rather than totally infuriating!
It matters: for modern computer systems to be usable by all and sundry, the make-up of the population that designs and implements them needs to reflect that of the population at large.
Apps shrink the programs that were once available only on a desktop computer to make them usable on smartphones and mobile devices — stock trades, restaurant reviews, Facebook, streaming radio, photographs, news articles, videos and, of course, Angry Birds.
The computer has a total usable storage capacity of 20T B comprising the internal hard disk and the external storage array directly attached to the server.
