Abaxis has the potential to become a prodigious disruptive technology, changing the nature and delivery of diagnostic medicine.
The 44-year-old's appetite for investing in long-term, futuristic technologies is prodigious: his areas of interest and speculation include autonomous ocean cities (via the Seasteading Institute), artificial intelligence (the Singularity Institute), and space exploration (SpaceX).
Mr. Martin began his career working with first-generation computers at I.B.M. in the 1950s, became influential in the field of information technology through his prodigious writing, and established a school at Oxford to study the problems and opportunities confronting the 21st-century world.
Depending on whom you ask, Silicon Valley and Israel have either had a long and prodigious symbiotic relationship when it comes to technology and technology companies, or Silicon Valley wouldn't be able to find Israel on a map.
Discovery of a sweetener 54,000 times sweeter than sucrose (cane or beet sugar) indicates the magnitude of prodigious increases portended by new technologies.
The scale, the virtuosity, the technology of Victorian sculpture is prodigious.
They can produce at prodigious levels, especially if global companies provide investment and technology.
Qualcomm is well-known as a leader in chip sets and other technology for mobile devices, and it is a prodigious licensor.
While these prodigious structures were the centre of attention, a new and more significant technology was developing: the steel-framed high-rise building.
Now Julia Angwin, a technology and media reporter for The Wall Street Journal, has done prodigious digging into the shady business practices, trailer-park aesthetics, lucky accidents and borderline personality types that have allowed MySpace to tap into the American psyche.
