The model can help address the environmental problems associated with exponentially growing quantities of computer waste.
Since then, phone logs have been studied in order to infer relationships between the volume of communication and other parameters (see e.g. [9]), but the apparition of mobile phone data in massive quantities, and of computers and methods that are able to handle those data efficiently, has definitely made a breakthrough in that domain.
The US Navy Seals seized a large quantity of computer files and other material at the house in Abbottabad which intelligence experts swooped upon with urgency.
The machine extracts "meaning" from vast quantities of what computer scientists call unstructured data, which essentially means anything designed to be consumed by humans rather than computers.
One day those billions of Chinese, Indians and Brazilians will be buying awesome quantities of toothpaste or computers.
The web is largely powered by huge server farms located all over the world that need large quantities of electricity for computers and cooling.
Meanwhile, Mexican factories are exporting record quantities of televisions, cars, computers and appliances, replacing some Chinese imports in the United States and fueling a modest expansion.
For example, by statistically weighing large quantities of sensor measurements, computers can mitigate individually confusing readings caused by reflections, blockages, bad illumination, or other complications.
While federal money paid for almost a quarter of the computers that schools received in the 1997-1998 school year, "high-poverty schools had less access to technology than low-poverty schools in terms of the quantity, quality and connectivity of computers," the report said.
