Bombs are guided by GPS satellites; drones are piloted remotely from across the world; fighter planes and warships are now huge data-processing centres; even the ordinary foot-soldier is being wired up.
This agreeable, tightly packed exhibition includes early telephones, telegraphs, and punch-card machines, but computing really gets going in the late forties with the development of the Selective Sequence Electronic Calculator, a huge data-processing terminal that lights up like a pachinko machine.
I'll spare you my uber-nerdy lecture on head-related transfer functions (HRTF), but suffice it to say that really fooling your brain into thinking that sounds aren't coming from right next to your ears would require headphones to do a huge amount of data processing.
However, its huge data rates also open new challenges for data processing.
The so-called NoSQL and NewSQL data stores present themselves as data processing alternatives that can handle this huge volume of data and provide the required scalability.
Instruments requiring huge data throughput and parallel computing use FPGA's for data processing.
We are what we contribute to data processing.
Standard curves were generated for data processing.
Tens of thousands of pieces of mail come into the huge Immigration and Naturalization Service data processing center in Laguna Niguel, Calif., every day, and as at so many government agencies, it tends to pile up.
That will require a huge amount of data processing, but that is what technology is good for.
It involves gathering huge amounts of data; processing them so that relevant information is displayed on a screen; and then destroying targets, at much greater distance and with much greater accuracy than was previously possible.
