Sentence examples for the computing age from inspiring English sources
In 1950, at the dawn of the computing age, the mathematician Alan Turing proposed a simple test to determine whether a machine could "think" in a human sense.
One problem, the authors reckoned, was that America was failing to take full advantage of the magnificent new technologies of the computing age, such as increasingly sophisticated automation and much-improved robots.
Time-sharing, a concept from the dawn of the computing age, is back with a vengeance.
"The really big deal about tablets is how they will help to finally bring the computing age to, for instance, children and the elderly," says Markkanen.
The idea of a universal constructor goes back more than 60 years to the dawn of the computing age, when John von Neumann, one of the architects of computing theory, started pondering whether self-replicating machines could exist.
At the dawn of the computing age, from the 1950s to 70s, IBM and seven other manufacturers (e.g. Honeywell, RCA, UNIVAC) worked on major mainframe computation projects for government agencies.
The computed age-standardized rates in this study are numerically higher than the GLOBOCAN rate of 1.2 per 100,000 persons [5].
Douglas Carl Engelbart, who in the 1960s envisioned the power of interconnected computers to accelerate the pursuit of knowledge and solve the world's increasingly complex problems, laying the foundation for the modern computing age and the Internet, died in his sleep at his home in Atherton, Calif., on Tuesday night.
Data centers will be the beating hearts of the "cloud computing" age, and the research institute hopes Taiwan companies can sell such centers ready-made and at one-third to one-half the cost of U.S. and Japanese competitors.
Netbooks might be the SUVs of the modern computing age, but more people are quickly finding that the mini notebooks are great companions.
Mr. Perkins belonged to an earlier era of start-up investing, when the companies he nurtured were still laying the foundations for the modern computing age, writes Michael de la Merced.
