But probably more important has been the embrace of a set of software standards -- rendered in a nerdy alphabet soup of acronyms, like XML, SOAP, WSDL, UDDI and so on -- that open the door to widespread machine-to-machine communication across the Internet.
Recent material development enabled EDM of electrically conductive oxide ceramics, the most widespread machining process for machining of hard materials, as an alternative to conventional ceramic manufacturing and hard machining technologies.
This laid the groundwork for widespread, automated machine-to-machine transactions between companies.Enter the InternetBut at the same time the Internet was exploding.
Even now, personal computers are not widespread: one machine per family is common.
In Barcelona a few days ago, Volvo demonstrated a platoon of autonomous cars on a motorway.As they become smarter and more widespread, autonomous machines are bound to end up making life-or-death decisions in unpredictable situations, thus assuming or at least appearing to assume moral agency.
Both Mexican and international election observers have reported numerous incidents that indicate that the PRI is making widespread use of machine tactics.
The widespread availability of machine understandable information on the Semantic Web offers some opportunities to improve traditional search.
The 1832 Royal Commission into the Operation of the Poor Laws was set up following the widespread destruction and machine breaking of the Swing Riots.
Circular saws are widespread tools for machining metal, wood or even ceramics.
Multimodal interaction, where multiple modalities sometimes play complementary roles with one another, is likely to become more widespread in human-machine communication.
Among them, the most widespread are bar machines and single-dose capsules, designed in large numbers because of their commercial popularity.
