The two professors were motivated by the belief that computing was becoming so important to the economy and society that educated people should understand the technology, and they devised Beginner's All-Purpose Symbolic Instruction Code, or Basic, to run on a time-shared computer at Dartmouth; students could tap into it from Teletype terminals.
Business use of cloud computing services is motivated by ease of use and potential financial cost reductions.
László Babai, the George and Elizabeth Yovovich Professor in Computer Science and Mathematics, specializes in complexity theory, algorithms, combinatorics, asymptotic group theory, and the many interactions among these fields, including problems of pure mathematics motivated by questions in the theory of computing.
This choice is motivated by the fact that "AND" is computed as an intersection operation on sets and that the subsumption is inferred based on the strict inclusion operator on sets.
The standardization ideas of Synthetic Biology emerged in the late 1990s from a convergence of research on cellular computing, and were motivated by an array of applications from tissue regeneration to bio-sensing to mathematical programming.
Approximate computing has been motivated by the large and growing class of applications that demonstrate inherent error resilience, such as DSP, multimedia (images/audio/video), graphics, wireless communications, and emerging workloads such as recognition, mining, and synthesis [11].
The concept to use UDP instead of TCP is motivated by our understanding that, in Cloud Computing, omnipresent off-the-shelf technologies (both in hard- and software) are encouraged, and if preventing errors from occurring becomes too costly, dealing with the errors may be a better solution.
In these fields, the use of high-performance computing solutions is motivated by the need of performing large numbers of in silico analysis to study the behavior of biological systems in different conditions, which necessitate a computing power that usually overtakes the capability of standard desktop computers.
Decision templates can also be used to compute a combination that is motivated by the evidence combination of the Dempster-Shafer theory.
"So much of the computing agenda today is motivated by the problems that the big Internet companies face," he observed.
