But the most profound recent change is a move away from the profession's dependence on committing vast amounts of information to memory.
Thinking Machines was an early maker of massive, parallel supercomputers, and by joining the company, in 1984, Dr. Waltz gained access to computers that by '80s standards held vast amounts of fast random-access memory, up to 512 megabytes.
Research shows that the short-term memory cannot hold vast amounts of information, but there are many memory techniques that could help you.
Genetic and protein-folding simulations require vast amounts of specialized high-speed processing and computer memory, said Kamran Khan, vice provost for information technology at Rice.
The browser's memory segments contain vast amounts of loaded websites, user account names, search queries, and text entered in webmail and social media pages.
A racetrack memory using hundreds of millions of nanowires would have the potential to store vast amounts of data [133, 134].
Because we now see vast amounts of information being able to be stored in memory, and Moore's Law has moved to the point where you can take what used to only fit on disk, and now fit the whole thing in memory.
Computers can store vast amounts of data.
It's trivially cheap to store vast amounts of data.
Optical disc data-storage technology, such as the CD-ROM (compact disc read-only memory) or the DVD-ROM (digital video disc read-only memory), has provided astronomers with the ability to store and retrieve vast amounts of telescopic and other astronomical data.
