The company has already developed a range of prototype systems and is preparing to test them with patients.
While ZIA is a prototype, systems using other approaches to block unauthorized access to a laptop are commercially available.
A number of networking companies, including Cisco, Hewlett-Packard and Juniper, have already produced prototype systems that support OpenFlow technology.
Although driverless vehicles would be, in theory, inherently safer, testing prototype systems in the real world presents a number of challenges.
The prototype systems for which Cray and I.B.M. were awarded contracts are to attain speeds of at least a quarter of that goal.
Intel has made good progress improving the performance of the Itanium chip, according to customers who have worked with prototype systems.
For much of this decade, both Shimano, which dominates bicycle parts the way Microsoft dominates computer software, and its venerable Italian competitor Campagnolo occasionally tested prototype systems on the bikes of pro riders.
His team is working on prototype systems for medical applications that could be commercially available in the next three to four years, including a portable device for use by people suffering from slurred speech caused by Parkinson's disease.
We've also modified the user interface in places, adding, removing and changing parts; for instance, the public chatroom in the Simplicity version of Eldy is now called "Community", which means that users of our prototype systems are in a different channel from the public chatroom of the original version, which is called "Square".
One of his prototype systems shuffles the queue of voice-mail messages to give priority to messages from friends when the phone is out of the office.The problem with all of this is that people may not want computers to make assumptions about their needs and preferences not least because those assumptions may be wrong.
Sun says prototype systems will be available in 2003.
