Hardware products have had long gestation periods, requiring multiple stages from conception using computer drafting tools to prototyping and readying a product for mass production.
See David Nofre, Mark Priestley, and Gerard Alberts, "When Technology Became Language: The Origins of the Linguistic Conception of Computer Programming, 1950 1960," Technology and Culture 55 1 (2014): 40 75.
Artificial intelligence has been a far-flung goal of computing since the conception of the computer, but we may be getting closer than ever with new cognitive computing models.
Structured interviews on childrens conceptions of computers.
It might look like just a giant iPhone, but the iPad turned our conception of a "computer" on its head, and possibly with it the media industry as well.
In that span of time, our very conception of what computers do has changed dramatically.
In the next part the conception and realization of a computer code for experimental data processing to estimate the thermal properties of thermal-insulating materials is given.
The history of the first programmable electronic computer, from its conception, construction, and use to its afterlife as a part of computing folklore.
Humankind falls into five continental groups broadly equivalent to the common conception of races when a computer is asked to sort DNA data from people from around the world into clusters.
More critically we draw on this study to reconsider the conception of awareness utilised within Computer Supported Cooperative Work and other fields where technological solutions are being proposed to support individuals to monitor, whether peripherally or not, locations, activities and other individuals in digital environments.
