Applications can simply be rebuilt on top of these services, which provide general purpose platforms for different needs.
We present the development of GATE, the Geant4 Application for Tomographic Emission, as a new general purpose simulation platform for PET and SPECT applications.
As a standalone company, MetaMind's general-purpose platform was designed to predict outcomes for language, vision and database tasks.
"Not every computing device should or will become a general-purpose platform".
But the general-purpose platform would likely not".
What was originally created as a tool for recording, managing and searching university lectures at scale has evolved into a general-purpose video platform for sharing ideas and information across a range of industries.
It was popular because RIM dropped the ball on localization and WinMo, for better or worse, was the best general purpose smartphone platform available to the Pierres, Leszeks, and Vlads of that world.
Square Appointments out of the gate will be taking on similar solutions that today target the beauty industry like StyleSeat and Vagaro, as well as more general purpose booking platforms like Groupon Scheduler, Schedulicity, or Genbook, for example.
As the modeling framework relies primarily on linear algebra and linear programming, general purpose mathematical software platforms, for example matlab (http://www.mathworks.com/) and mathematica (http://www.wolfram.com/), or optimization modeling packages, for example gams (http://www.gams.com/), are well suited.
