So two different spellings there, but it's ok to spell disk with a k in British English when we're talking about computers and computing.
The science can be applied to many things, such as technical instruments, but in the realm of computing we're talking about computers built, perhaps, on a type of engineered graphite, Graphene, at the atomic level, or optical computers which use photons instead of electronics.
Everyone is talking about cloud computing these days, but what is it really, and why should chief executives care?
It seems like Trend Micro has been talking about cloud computing as a method of anti-virus filtering before other vendors.
It does not have anything to do with what the current technology of the day is – whether we are talking about cloud computing or ERP systems.
The Misplaced Assumption Hewlett-Packard, IBM and Sun are talking about "grid computing" and "utility computing" as if these are new ideas and not just warmed-over versions of good old-fashioned mainframe time-sharing.
As someone who is supposed to know about these things, I'm sometimes asked to give talks about computing to non-technical audiences.
Take pen computing: I think it's fair to say we've been talking about pen computing for years, but it was hard to do that with OEMs who were not equally incentivized.
We are not just talking about a computing revolution as in the past; to me it reflects much more what will happen in your home, your connected car, with your wearable devices, and so on.
Instead, we are talking about decentralizing computing power while making better use of it.
It took a year of talking about spatial computing with Abovitz, of breaking it down into can I do this?
