It was also novel in its notion of a 'Universal Machine' (now known as a universal Turing machine), with the idea that such a machine could perform the tasks of any other computation machine, or in other words, it is provably capable of computing anything that is computable.
Over the next few years it must decide whether to compromise on its notion of "fine journalism" and take a more innovative, more businesslike approach or risk becoming a beautiful old museum piece.
With business technology spending finally showing signs of picking up, and I.B.M. reporting strong quarterly results two weeks ago, Mr. Palmisano's vision seems less an against-the-grain bet than it did when the company trotted out its notion of on-demand computing in the fall of 2002.
And in its notion of some malign conspiracy guiding world affairs, it does not just anticipate the paranoid atmosphere of the 60's but suggests how far movie scenarios were weighing on experience.
In doing so, it can be regarded also as generalizing deductive logic and its notion of implication, to a complete theory of inference equipped with the notion of 'degree of implication' that relates E to H.
Its notion of cantankerous is "bad-tempered; quarrelsome".
Its notion of happiness often seems to involve vanishing entirely.
As is its notion of what Patel calls a "Toc".
Shakespeare's first major tragedy is Roman in spirit and Classical in its notion of tragic character.
Direct popular vote, while attractive for its notion of national homogeneity, is as dangerous as the perpetuation of the binary system of parties that gridlocks our politics.
However convoluted and impenetrable, this cinematic labyrinth sabotages the very idea of reality with its notion of dream invasion, theft and implantation.
