When Bill Gates made a generous gift so poor children could learn essential computer skills, some critics objected to acknowledging Microsoft because they worried that Mr. Gates made the gift largely to create Windows customers.
Essential computer, laboratory, and communication equipment was supplied.
Emailing is one of the most common forms of communication these days, and knowing how to send an email is now an essential computer skill.
Make sure it is at least a Pentium D. Video: A graphics card is the most essential computer part for gaming.
Outside the ballroom, conference attendees hung around performing the three essential computer-industry-conference-attendee tasks: networking, frowning over institutional coffee, and punching calling-card numbers into pay phones while balancing laptops on their laps.
A19 F.A.A. Facing Tough Decisions The Federal Aviation Administration is facing some of the same problems that are driving the airlines to bankruptcy, rising costs and declining income, as its essential computers wear out and half of its air traffic controllers near retirement age.
We know that our digital networks are being tested, on a minute by minute basis, by would-be cyberterrorists, criminal gangs, rogue hackers and rival nations who look for unguarded digital back doors that would allow them to seize control of our most essential computers.
Tom Corson, the marketing director, has a small corner office decorated with the essentials (computer, phone, piles of CD's).
Vincent Weafer of the Symantec Antivirus Research Center spends most of his time thinking of ways to prevent viruses from getting into computers in the first place, but he also stresses that a reliable backup plan is essential to computer security.
As such, it is essential that computer science education become integrated in the K-12 curriculum.
So, why rob such a sophisticated robot of something as seemingly essential as computer vision?
