Sentence examples for development of the personal from inspiring English sources

The proposal also included proclamations from tech-world celebrities like Steve Jobs, Apple's founder, that the device might change urban life and could be as significant as the development of the personal computer.

Between 1960 and 1979, the 914 earned Xerox around forty billion dollars — funding, among other things, the construction of the corporate campus in Rochester, and jump-starting the development of the personal computer, at Xerox PARC, in California.

The names and positive pronouncements of all three -- Mr. Jobs reportedly said the device could be as significant as the development of the personal computer -- were invoked in a supposedly secret proposal for a book to be written by Mr. Kamen and Steve Kemper, a journalist.

We move from rugged adventurers in the great wide open to techno geeks in poorly lit basements with Walter Isaacson's piece in Medium about the convergence of cultures in the Bay Area in the nineteen-seventies that led to the development of the personal computer.

Helped by the explosion in computing power and the rapid development of the personal computer, businesses began to look at encouraging their staff to use their space more flexibly, through sharing desks and using communal meeting rooms rather than dedicated offices.

Significant advancements have been made in the technological development of the personal health record (PHR).

The reflection process, which took place in the course of the programme, seemed to be a necessary step for the development of the other personal resources.

"I am pleased that the Jordan initiative in the area of early childhood development, under the personal leadership of Her Majesty, is promoted as best practice in the region," said UNICEF Representative in Jordan Anne Skatvedt.

The key developmental tasks of adolescence are the achievement of biological and sexual maturity, the development of personal identity, the development of intimate sexual relationships, and finally, the establishment of independence and autonomy [ 1].

Toyota Develops Personal Transport Assistance Robot Winglett' Aug 1, 2008 Tokyo — TOYOTA MOTOR CORPORATION (TMC) announced today development of the "Winglet", a personal transport assistance robot ridden in a standing position.

Recent research has found that the development of a personal narrative mediates the relationship between deficits in social cognition or social withdrawal and negative symptoms [ 36] and that vocational rehabilitation is linked to reductions in self-stigma [ 37].