The device would thus do everything that Busicom wanted, but it would do a lot more: it was the essence of a general-purpose computer.
"Here in a master's thesis by a research assistant," Mr. Gleick writes, "was the essence of the computer revolution yet to come".
In Vernor Vigne's 1981 sci-fi novella "True Names," Vinge introduced to popular culture the idea of "cyberimmortality" -- in this case, a person's death-proof essence uploaded to a computer network to live on in perpetuity.
The projector is pricey, because you're buying, in essence, a giant version of the inside of a computer monitor upon which to project images that are breathtakingly filmic.
An FPGA is, in essence, a computer chip that can rewire itself for a given task.
It may enhance the usefulness of a Notebook but it doesn't change the essence of what a Notebook computer is.
This chapter describes the essence of a course for senior level undergraduate students and for master students of computer science and engineering, and analyzes its effects.
Stepdaughter of a computer salesman.
The essence of a woman is weakness.
"What is the essence of a democracy?
